Eric seppas
Exhibitions
2023 GSA Gallery, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts Master exhibition, “A Cat Across the Street”, Stockholm
2022 Supermarket, Konsthall Kåddis, curator, installation, Skärholmen, Stockholm
2022 Sjungaregården, Untitled, installation, solo, Granö
2020 Konsthall Kåddis, Celebration of the dark side of life's circus, Group, Curator, Installation, Umeå
2020 Galleri Verkligheten, Group, Paintings, (Online) Umeå
2020 Galleri Socker, 20x20x20, Sculpture, Group, Umeå
2020 Skulpturpark Sparreholm, Sculpture, Sparreholm
2019 Galleri Syster, Post peak society, Installation, Group, Luleå
2019 Campus allegro Novia, De vita, solo, Jakobstad Finland
2019 Energiverket, DECONSTRUCting Identity, Sculpture, Group, Jakobstad Finland
2019 Gallery White Box, The Harmonic Broken Note Sheets, Installation, Solo, Jakobstad, Finland
2018 Örebro Konsthall, Now is the time, Installation, Performance, Örebro
2018 Konsthallen Örebro Universitetet Musikhögskola, Kosmisk kastrering 5x5, Painting, Örebro
2018 Sala silvergruva, Öppna hus konst vid och i gruvan, Paintings, Sculptures, Installations, Sala
2018 Gallery Birgit Nilsson, Bipolära speglingar och subtila pseudovisioner, Installations, Tavlor, Artistbook, Örebro
2017-2018 Atlas Copco, Satans demokrati, Performance and live painting, Stockholm Nacka
2017 Gallery Soho, Jul och vintermarknadsutställning, Tavlor, Teckningar, Västerås
2017 Sala silvergruva, Skräcknatten 2.0, Ljudinstallation, Sala
2017 Smedsbo, Smedsbodagarna, Tavlor, Hedensberg
2017 Saltskogård Liljevalchs, Vårutsällning, Installation, Södertälje Stockholm
2017 Ekoboden, Kaos in harmony, Soloutställning, Tavlor, Gnesta Stockholm
2016 Vårdinge Folkhögskola, Temaveckor, Installation, Stockholm
2016 Sala Silvergruva, Installationer, Performance, Sala
2016 Societe KSK-Galleri, Höstpromenad i vår skog, Rumsinstallation, Västerås
2016 Societe KSK-Galleri, Höst & Horror Special edition, Rumsinstallation, Tavlor/skulpturer, Västerås
2016 Västerås Kulturnatt, Psychedelic mind, Skulptur, Streetart, Västerås
2016 Smedsbo, Smedsbofestivalen, Tavlor, Skulpturer, Workshop, Hedensberg
2016 Kollektivet Hönshuset, Konstprojekt Recycling, Skulpturer, Ytterjärna
2016 I Lasses Kvarter, Premiär, Skulptur, Västerås
2016 Societe KSK-Galleri, FORM – Betong, Trädd, Sten och Lera, Skulpturer, Tavlor, Installation, Västerås
2013 Deadly leaders, Installation, Västerås
Press
Folkbladet
Älvdalsinspirerad konstfestival startar upp, 2022
https://www.folkbladet.nu/2022-06-29/alvdalsinspirerad-konstfestival-startar-upp
Västerbotten kuriren
Fem konsthändelser att se fram emot i vår, 2023
https://www.vk.se/2023-01-04/fem-konsthandelser-att-se-fram-emot-i-var
Västerbotten kuriren
Storskaligt och med materialen i centrum, 2021
https://www.vk.se/2021-06-28/storskaligt-och-med-materialen-i-centrum
Västmanlands läns tidning
Sten, sax och påse – unga konstnärer återvänder till Västerås, 2021
https://www.vlt.se/2021-06-12/sten-sax-och-pase--unga-konstnarer-atervander-till-vasteras
Norrbottens kuriren
Konst med utgångspunkt i framtidens vägskäl, 2019
https://kuriren.nu/bli-prenumerant/artikel/8j8pzgml/nk-2m2kr_s_22
Österbottens tidning
Ny utställning i White Box, en resa i tid och rum, 2019
https://www.osterbottenstidning.fi/Artikel/Visa/258287
Nerikes Allehanda
Sista utställningen på universitetets konsthall sticker ut: "Bryta ihop får du göra någon annanstans”
"Eric Seppas combines painting and spatial installation in works that ask questions about our present time. He is interested in spatialities in both external and internal worlds, in group dynamics, and in relationships between spaces we share with others.
Seppas reacts to the growing polarisation of society and how this seep into our minds. People’s ideas seem to spread like viruses and create systems. Misunderstandings arise even though we actually share the same space. Positions and opinions become imperative as we are coloured by our surroundings, our friends and our families.........." - Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Curator, Kristina Buch, 2023
"Eric Seppas
To be in the installation is to stand in the middle of a chiasm, at a chiasmic cross-road. Surrounded by materials, that are made from iron oxide, we can see how the thermodynamics react to applications of heat and fire.
The colours have changed from yellow to red, and within the sculpture, the source of heat, generated from welding, allows rust to accumulate, as the sculpture reacts to its surrounding. A subtle but explosive centre-point that illustrates layers of transformation.
The white canvas is made by having a bed sheet drained in water, and used as a fire blanket to extinguish the fire from the three paintings hanging in the space. The sheet was then stretched on a spännram and framed. The floor acts as an obsidian mirror, encompassing the viewer within these different chemical structures and worlds in realtime. It is how time and surroundings interact between the entities that make life. Rust is a metaphor for a passenger in life.
'When I found ochre, the light and warmth iron oxides generates, the vivid vibrant relations it holds for me, and its sensitivity to its surrounding. This activates a stream of consciousness. The materials speak again.'
A correspondence. The space is opened, the space of a book - ochre/rust – leading from one to the other, a story of unstable, reactive shadows and time suspended. An inquiry moves in real time, a dramaturgy underpinning the essence of images. Opening the perception of the world. On the optical level there is something of a sending, on the chemical level there is something of a deposit.
Exhibited works, degree exhibition
Obsidian Chiasm, 2021, Steel sculpture. Paintings: Oil and fire on canvas. Floor: Alkyd, lacquer paint, iron oxide and boat varnish" Västerbotten museet, Umeå, Curator, Edith Marie Pasquier. 2022
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