MORE Gorssel
11 november 2023 t/m 25 februari 2024

Tal R & Mamma Andersson

This autumn, Museum MORE will show the powerful work of the Danish-Israeli artist Tal R (1967) and Mamma Andersson (1962) from Sweden. Entirely different at first sight, the two artists share an immense fascination for C.F. Hill (1849–1911), whose vibrant landscapes and mysterious worlds packed with fear and eroticism, made him a central figure in the history of Nordic art. The exhibition About Hill is thus a unique encounter between three Scandinavian luminaries.

Magical drawings

Over 75 of the so-called ‘illness drawings’ by the legendary Swedish artist Carl Frederik Hill form the maelstrom on which Tal R and Mamma Andersson allowed themselves to be swept away especially for this exhibition. Both of these leading contemporary artists have created dozens of brand-new works inspired by Hill’s wondrous and sometimes frightening drawings. Hill experienced severe bouts of mental illness from the age of 28 and was declared insane. It would have an immense impact on his work. Where his art had initially been rooted in Romanticism and the 19th-century French landscape tradition, he now entered a mysterious world, in which he depicted his most personal visions: artistic fantasies of writhing female figures, wild waterfalls and untamed animals. Hill turned himself inside out, expressing his inner darkness and crisis in thousands of drawings. His exceptional visual language now dates back over a century, yet feels timeless.