[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — 22.09 - 11.10.1972 KNUD HOLAR — Categories: press, letters — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — Category: press — SDS (Sydsvenska Dagbladet) 22.09.1972 — LundGalerie S:t Petri, S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5, 5-8PM, Knud Holar — — — Arbetet, 23 September 1972 (handwritten annotation: ‘ARB. 23.9.72.’) — Danish computer-inspired artist exhibits in LundLUND: The Danish painter Knud Holar is currently visiting Lund, where he is showing about fifteen paintings at Galerie S:t Petri from 22 September to 11 October.Holar was born in 1934 in Aarhus, Denmark, but is now based in Malmö. He often draws his inspiration from contemporary music, but is also fascinated by the computer-controlled and mechanised society — a theme reflected in his paintings.He mostly exhibits abroad, such as in two solo shows in London in 1969 and 1972. — — — Category: press — Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 23 September 1972 (handwritten annotation: ‘SDS 23.9.72.’) caption: Drawing by Krister Lindell shown at Galerie Pro Prisma. — Three Lund galleries have opened new exhibitions.At Aura, located in Krogenhuset, Lillemor Rudolf-Hall is showing paintings and drawings. This is her first solo exhibition in Lund. She was born in Röstånga and trained at the Skåne Painting School in Malmö and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She has previously had solo shows at Galerie Nordqvist and Galerie Leger in Malmö, and has been part of the Skåne Artists’ Association since 1962.Galerie Prisma presents about twenty oil paintings as well as drawings and lithographs by the Gothenburg-based artist Folke Lind. He took part in the 1967 exhibition Critics’ Choice at Lunds konsthall. At the same time, the gallery’s print room presents around twenty drawings by Krister Lindell.At Galerie S:t Petri, the Danish painter Knud Holar exhibits intentional paintings. He usually shows his work abroad and has had two solo exhibitions in London. The exhibition at Galerie S:t Petri is his second solo show in Sweden. — — — Category: press — Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 5 October 1972 (handwritten note: "SDS 5.10.72"). Caption: Folke Lind, Rauklandskap (Rock Landscape), painting. — Necessity and SpeculationMost artistic creation likely begins as an attempt to process personal problems. But if it is to remain more than mere therapy for the artist, art must move beyond the personal. It must become a synthesis of the personal and the universal. When depicting people, relationships, situations, or scenes, this synthesis is essential; otherwise, the result remains either purely private or meaninglessly obscure.The drawings and paintings of Lillemor Rudolf-Hall express this tension in a compelling way. Her conflict-laden images are intensely personal, yet they reach beyond individual expression to something more representative and typical. There are no vague generalities in these pictures – everything stems from personal experience. The authenticity of the images is palpable. Everything is openly presented, including the struggle with the material itself, which actively contributes to the expression. Understanding these images requires effort and attention from the viewer, in order to grasp the necessity behind them.The theme in Folke Lind’s images is the threat to our environment – not just to the world around us, but to life itself. In the shadowed summer skies, rather than the idyllic, there is a presence of death. The landscape feels doomed and on the verge of disintegration, like an apocalyptic Icelandic scene. Lind's work deals with decay, starvation, and destruction. He seems convinced that humanity is headed toward annihilation. Yet, that realization becomes a driving force in his expression.The abstract, geometric forms in Knud Holar’s images live their own life. They evolve, move with rhythm, or reduce themselves to tight signs and symbols.His pictures are beautiful, well-crafted, and decorative – but they are not mere decoration. Holar has no interest in producing commodified objects. He does not aim to create anything other than pure artistic expression — and precisely because of that, he avoids failure and reaches meaning.HANS JOHANSSON — — — Category: press — Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 7 October 1972 (handwritten annotation: ‘SDS 7.10.72’) — Galerie S:t Petri, S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5, open Monday–Friday 3–8 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 12–5 p.m.As an introduction to his paintings, Knud Holar writes in English (why, one wonders?): “Art is emotional experience, transformed by chosen beholders.” The work in question is thus a completely open artwork, which does not “deal with” anything in particular, but offers itself as a willing tool to the viewer, to be used freely.The artist’s intention is to provide the viewer with an instrument through which emotional experiences can be formulated and made tangible. It is up to the viewer to supply those experiences. – These images might be called image-coins. – Final day: Wednesday. — — — Biographical card of K. Holar in Polish. Pod Gruszką Gallery, Krakow, June 1973 — KNUD HOLARBorn in 1934 in DenmarkMember of the National Union of Artists in Swedenand of the Scanian Artists' AssociationRyttmästaregatan 7 AS-217 52 MalmöSwedenTel. 040-64838On the back of the card:Peinture — GraphismeKnud HolarSuèdeGalerie « Pod Gruszką »Club des JournalistesCracovie, rue Szczepańska 1Juin 1973 — — — Category: letters — Envelope 1/3 : Undated envelope containing three black-and-white photographic reproductions of works by Knud Holar. (See the following two records) — Galerie S:t Petri12 black/white cardsKnud HolarTitle: Connexion LXXI–XII100 cm × 100 cmOil on canvas — — — Category: letters — Envelope 2/3: black-and-white photographic reproduction of work by Knud Holar. — — — Category: letters — Envelope 3/3: two black and white photographic reproductions of works by Knud Holar. — — — Category: letters — Letter from Knud Holar to Jean Sellem, Malmö, 3 November 1972 — Malmö, 3 Nov. 1972Jean!Here is a proposal for a poster — half-size.I have checked prices and found the following as the lowest option:800 posters — size 62 × 29.5 cmstrong 200g papermatte surfaceblack offset print on 1 sideTotal amount: SEK 325(including VAT at 17.65% and advertising tax at 10%)Hope to hear from you.Best regards,Knud