A turtle.

All the Animals in the World

Artist: Christoffer Paues
Curator: Peter Hagdahl
City: Uppsala
Category: Permanent art, Permanent konst
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A turtle.
Image 1 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Large painting on a glass wall.
Image 2 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
A close up of the glass wall with a person walking by.
Image 3 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Another painted glass wall.
Image 4 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Yet another painted glass wall. In the bakground people who are seated.
Image 5 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Sculpture of an animal with a long neck and a small head.
Image 6 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Scultpure of a sitting monkey, scratching his stumach.
Image 7 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Two chairs and a small table next to a painted glass wall.
Image 8 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
In the background a painted glass wall. In the front three tables with red chairs around them.
Image 9 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Small white sculpture of a palm tree.
Image 10 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Small sculpture of a bird with a blue chest.
Image 11 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Sculpture of a pink octopus.
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Large painting on glass portraying a group of flying brids.
Image 13 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
Close up of a colourful painting on glass.
Image 14 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.
A man walking by a painted glass wall.
Image 15 of 15. Christoffer Paues, all the animals in the world.

In All the Animals in the World (All världens djur) storms and serene seas, barren deserts and tropical landscapes co-exist. We find an array of galloping horses, flying cranes, playing dogs, pecking hens, fish and jellyfish. The work is a contemporary visual fable. Unlike the clear narrative of traditional fables, however, where anthropomorphic animals deliver moral messages, the dynamic in Paues’ work lies in the collision between incompatible and improbable creatures and worlds. Christoffer Paues was also inspired by animal portrayals in art history

The scene is imaginary, a poetic rendition of nature, perpetually metamorphosing, mobile and unpredictable.

In this work, he brings together the unlikely, the abstract and the figurative, the familiar and the unknown. His imagery allows disparate fantasies, thoughts and ideas to appear together. The scene is imaginary, a poetic rendition of nature, perpetually metamorphosing, mobile and unpredictable.The work All the Animals in the World stretches throughout the entire entrance level of the Centre for Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science. It consists of two large, horizontal glass paintings, a sculpture group and two video screens that together form a visual totality of moving images and two and three dimensional art.

Christoffer Paues was born in Stockholm in 1975 and studied at the Royal Institute of Art (MFA 2006). In his oeuvre, he mixes painting, sculpture, text and moving images in spatial situations. Inspired by art history, drama and alternative universes, he has created a multifaceted work that manages to embrace contradiction, impurity and complexity.

Peter Hagdahl

 

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