Nicolas Alsterdal

Past Exhibitions

09.09.2023 - 09.09.2023
Zeitgeist Artshow, Zeitgeist , Saluhallen,S:t Eriks torg 8, Uppsala

Bio

I started my self-made painting journey 2020.
A relevant description of myself is a human mixed media. I am attracted to differences, and when I look at myself in the mirror, I am often looking for the opposite of myself and all the pieces of me there in-between. My carrier within revenue management and pricing has most certainly contributed to my fascination for details, systems and geometries. Even though it might come through my paintings, the true motivation to my art carrier is the end of my passion for Theatre. After many years on stage and behind the stage, one theater company in France and one in Sweden, years of experiments from street clown to improvisation and direction, I had to try the opposite of words. Art in general and painting in particular took over my passion where words came to an end.
The end of an era is the beginning of a new one, full of trials, failures and promises. But most of all learnings, learnings, learnings.
I paint with different acrylic techniques in several layers following my internal process without any clear goal. Usually, I start with an idea in mind, but it will quickly turn into something totally different from the original idea. The more I change direction, the more I trust my process as I know it gets me closer to the inside. Thoughts, ideas, emotions, conversations, images, situations, people… so much life happening all the time around us influencing the direction of my painting. I sometimes feel that I am using everyone else’s life to get closer to myself.
Just like myself, my artworks are sometimes in harmony, sometimes in chaos but they are always pieces of the inside.
It might be my inside.
It might be yours.

Links

My Website Gallerie Zeitgeist Artportable