Madeleine Åstrand
Square sequence
Oil on canvas
89x89 cm
2024
“Who will tell me how, all through existence, my whole person has been preserved? What was it that carried me, inert,
full of life and spirit, from one end of nothingness to the other?
Paul Valéry
WORKS
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.jpg?etag=%222dad81-60b4c40c%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=2500,3333&quality=85 "Inflational (the stair)")
.jpg?etag=%222c6db1-60aa2b22%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=2500,640&quality=85 "Horizontal view (digitalized) 2011")
.jpg?etag=%22fed00-611a5d16%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=2500,1361&quality=85 "Immaterialism (red)")
.jpg?etag=%22150b10-611a5c43%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=1500,820&quality=85 "Materialism")
.jpg?etag=%22d33ff-611a5d7e%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=2500,1403&quality=85 "Immaterialism (blue)")
Born 1982
Based in Stockholm
Education:
Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Lunds Universitet
Bachelor in Fine arts
Pernbys school of painting
Nyckelviksskolan
Södertörns Högskola
Bachelor in Economics, in collaboration with KTH and Konstfack
Grants
Gustav och Ida Unmans stipendiefond, 2009
Helge Ax:son Johnson stiftelse, 2022
Helge Ax:son Johnson 2024´
Contact:
Email: madeleine.astrand@gmail.com
ABOUT
Scientific processes have always interested me and the desire to unite them with other disciplines like poetry, philosophy and psychology has always been great. I seek expressions for unity between material and immaterial, between the defined and undefined, existent and non-existent
The geometric forms have been in focus the last years. Fibonaccis calculations has been a great source of inspiration as well as Heisenbergs uncertainity relation. I ask myself if the inner energy and mental states tends to accumulate in the same way?
My latest project is a study in energy and geometry where I work intuitionally but with a clear idea. I focus on the calculations of Fibonacci and do my own interpretations for a new language within the forms.