Blå og lyserød ellipse med firkanter på brun og blå baggrund 1918

Vilhelm Lundstrom made this colourful print with ink on paper. He presents us with a landscape in which the pink and blue of the sky and sea meet the brown of the earth. It seems to me that Lundstrom delights in the pure process of image-making, pushing the tension between abstraction and figuration. I can almost imagine him in the studio, moving rectangular cut-outs around until an image emerges from the chaotic space of the page. I feel a certain sympathy for the artist. You begin with a plan, but you end up somewhere else. Through a playful exploration of colour, shape, and texture, the artist arrives at something unexpected. Lundstrom, like many painters, engages in an ongoing conversation with the history of art. They create by building on, responding to, and questioning the ideas of those who came before. I think that, with this playful and experimental work, Lundstrom invites us to embrace the ambiguity and uncertainty that lies at the heart of painting.