Felix Gmelin
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Felix Gmelin (born 1962, Heidelberg, Germany) is an artist based in Stockholm.
He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including “Always Already Passe” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise [1] in New York, “Storm From Paradise” at Arnolfini [2] in Bristol, “Painting Modernism Black” at Galleri Olsson [3] in Stockholm, “Delays and Revolutions” at the 2003 Venice Biennale [4] and “Balancing Acts” at Centre Culturel Suedois [5] in Paris. He is represented by Milliken Gallery [6] in Stockholm.
Felix Gmelin currently works in a variety of media including video, but he is most widely recognised as a painter. A well known series of his paintings are based on famously vandalised works of art which Gmelin recreates exactly, for example a reproduction of a section of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ which was graffitied in New York in 1974. A common thread running through Gmelin’s work is the perception of political revolution and the possibility of the continued impact of certain so-called revolutionary acts once they have been filtered through history, transformed into clichés of themselves. His vandalism paintings can be read as both amusing art jokes and as something containing a more pointed critique of the cultural resonance of rebellion turned into a socially acceptable, even fashionable, statement.
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