Tommy Hilding

Reflex, 2017

Olja på duk / Oil on linen

100x200 cm Photo

Courtesy: Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm

Legend, 2013–2018
Olja på duk / Oil on linen

120x200 cm Photo Courtesy: Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm

In Tommy Hilding’s new paintings lies a justified concern and sadness with regard to how we continue to treat nature, despite our staggering level of knowledge. His paintings are as technically brilliant and detailed as the works of his older colleagues that he surrounds himself with. There is no assertion of the personal here either, but rather the objective gaze and a precisely depicted pictorial world, that in turn provide his works with a universality and gravitas.

Tommy Hilding highlights our estrangement to nature by presenting the motif as seen through a window, or a thin veil of haze. The beauty of the paintings, and the allure to explore the spaces they open to us, are rendered all the more complex by a brooding sense of uncertainty as to whether the world we are granted access to can also provide a way out again.

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