Home is a sacred space where comfort should be combined with beauty. Practicality and aesthetic don`t always blend easily but Anette is able to do it thanks to her past as interior designer and her present as an artist.
Anette Hallbäck is a Swedish artist from Gothenburg. Passionate of fashion and design, she studied to become an interior designer. After several years spent working in this field, she has turned into art dedicating most of her time to creating tactile artworks.
Anette fuses both design and artistic qualities in her art pieces. The union of these creative expressions shows a wide understanding of a minimalistic and intimate aesthetic which is exhibited through white canvases modelled according to natural patterns.
The monochromatic artworks, made with linen and plaster mixed with white/beige colour, are inspired by the natural elements, specially by the Scandinavian landscape and seascape. Where fiords find their way towards the mainland, where hills arise from the sea Anette perceives lines, movement and harmony.
Anette’s paintigs have tactile qualities and exist as three dimensional images. Because of their thickness and materiality, they can be defined as sculptural paintings. The artist, in fact, models lines acting as a craftsman that gives life to a three-dimensional object by moulding natural materials. The linen waves stick out more or less, are wider or thinner, longer or shorter according to her intention.
As three-dimensional bodies the paintings require to be seen from different angles to be completely sensed. The spectator should move around the painting to perceive the folds and the shades they project on the white surface. The white artworks change according to the light and the space where they are located actively participating to the liveliness of the room.
Vertical and straight, horizontal and interrupted, deep and thick, shallow and thin the pattern never repeats itself. Like the patterns drawn on water and sand by natural forces like wind and waves, Anette’s patterns too are unique and never the same. Reinterpreting the natural rhythm of nature Anette never runs out of motifs.
Her experience as interior designer allowed her to understand what people most need in their lives which is a comfortable shell where safety, peace and release are priorities. A place where the multiple layers of one´s social identity can be left out and inner serenity can be found.
The ancestral rhythm of nature becomes part of a smaller unit, that of a home. By introducing a feeling of softness and relief, Anette shows how art can have an impact on daily life.
Thank you to Anette Hallbäck https://www.instagram.com/anettehallback/?hl=it