Stieg Persson
1st – 5th August 2012
Melbourne Art Fair
In its current usage the word “enthusiasm” simply means a lively interest. It has however a lost ancient and archaic meaning, that of inspiration by a divine madness. When discussing the artistic imagination and the origins of the artwork, Eighteenth century rationalism removed the divine and substituted the mind, but a mind suspended of its usual operations, enflamed and under the spell of three fundamental aspects of enthusiasm: obsession, excitement and transport. It is in that spirit that these paintings have been made.
A range of methods and styles coexist in this installation. There are libidinal abstractions, forms swelling and protruding, images in the act of becoming. Some fuse abstraction with a collection of small realist elements, shapes evolve and radiate from a still life of a pearl, flowers sprout from street taggings. Our understanding of the traditional is dissolved, Culture is naturalised, nature is cultured.
Stieg Persson
Images
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_After-the-Sugar-Rush.jpg)
Stieg Persson
After the Sugar Rush, 2012
Oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Banksy_web.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Banksy, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Brink_web.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Brink, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Broughton-Hall_web.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Broughton Hall, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_La-Dame-aux-Camelias_web.jpg)
Stieg Persson
La Dame aux Camélias, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Lascivious.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Lascivious, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Loveable.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Loveable, 2012
oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Lubricious.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Lubricious, 2012
Oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_More-Joyous.jpg)
Stieg Persson
More Joyous, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Orbis.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Orbis, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Princeton-View.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Princeton View, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Seed.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Seed, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Sphera.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Sphera, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Thomas-Hirschhorn.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Thomas Hirschhorn, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Verge.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Verge, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Yale.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Yale, 2012
oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Licentious.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Licentious, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Sunnyhurst-Gardens.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Sunnyhurst Gardens, 2012
Oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2012_Threshold.jpg)
Stieg Persson
Threshold, 2012
oil and metallic paint on linen
51 x 46 cm
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/PERSSON_2010_St-Etienne_web.jpg)
Stieg Persson
St. Etienne, 2010
oil on linen
51 x 46 cm