ANDERS KRISÁR

Born 1973. Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Largely an autodidact, Krisár decided to become a visual artist only in his late twenties. Krisár’s output -  primarily in sculpture and photography  - may be seen as hermetic or even morbid, playing as it does with casting, molds, and deformation. Yet the artist’s skillful and poetic deployment of a deeply felt intuition has given rise to a body of work that reveals the physical, experiential, and societal yearnings and limitations of man, making it altogether human.

The autobiographical quality of Krisár’s practice and his focus on familial concerns connects him to artists working in the same lineage, such as Surrealist and feminist sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Krisár’s opus also also evokes the worlds created by Robert Gober, by way of his themes of domesticity, nature, and eroticism; Kiki Smith, through her ideas on birth and regeneration; Ron Mueck, in his usage of hyperrealism and casting; and Richard Dupont, via his use of technologies involving replicas and body scanning. Yet what defines Krisár’s particular worldview is his keen sense of aesthetics, which manages to balance his need to investigate deep-rooted traumas with stringent conceptualism.