Pontus Carle a d a m g a l l e r y

Pontus Carle

24 CORK STREET W1S 3NJ t: 0207 439 6633

13 JOHN STREET Bath BA1 2JL t: 01225 480406

Cover: Hourglass Lake Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm e: [email protected] www.adamgallery.com Pontus Carle was born in Sweden in 1955. In 1959 his family moved to . It was there that he began to attend French and international schools. When he turned 18, he decided to dedicate himself to art, and began to study etching with Henri Goetz, an American artist who ran a school in . He was then accepted at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied and . School in Paris was followed by a year in Sweden spent pursuing his study of lithography with Bertil Lundberg, the renowned Swedish print maker. After finishing his studies, he traveled in Europe and Africa and began to exhibit his work. In 1980 he visited and settled there, living in downtown Manhattan in the midst of a thriving art scene and occupying studios in Soho, TriBeCa and Chinatown. He would live in New York for nearly a decade, until 1989. New York impacted him strongly and he has said that the first years there were like being back in school – his work went through a total revolution. The second half of his extended sojourn in the city was extremely productive and he had a number of exhibitions in both New York and around the . By 1989, he was drawn back to Europe and based himself in Paris. In 1990 an opportunity to exhibit his work in a Frankfurt Gallery opened up new possibilities beyond . The artist’s exhibition in Frankfurt brought him into contact with people working in West and East Berlin, which would eventually lead to a shift from Paris to a studio in Kreuzberg. Berlin was the focus of several projects and he began to exhibit there and throughout Germany. The 90’s saw the artist expand his reach with numerous shows around Europe, especially in Sweden, Germany and France and there were also occasional events in the United States, including the sales of artworks to a variety of institutions. Gradually a new work cycle began to take hold that found the artist travelling and working between studios in the south of Sweden, Berlin and Paris, a pattern of peregrination that continues to this day.

Five Thirty Five

Oil on canvas 117 x 148 cm El Punto His World

Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm 120 x 140 cm Seen Through the Mist

Oil on canvas 126 x 172 cm Everybody on this Street

Oil on canvas 105 x 151 cm Ghost of My Past Coco Baranca

Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm 130 x 172 cm Visions Il est Inute The Big Jump II

Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper Oil on canvas 66 x 50.5 cm 66 x 50.5 cm 120 x 145 cm Vision No.7 Daydream

Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm 130 x 147 cm Eruption

Oil on canvas 104 x 149 cm Five Thirty Five (detail) Making Plans Deja Vu

Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 82 x 100 cm 80 x 120 cm Jump First Here and Now They Went

Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper Oil on canvas 66 x 50.5 cm 66 x 50.5 cm 122 x 92 cm For One Person Meeting Again

Mixed media on paper Oil on canvas 50.5 x 66 cm 80 x 140 cm Daydream (detail)

Terra del Fuego

Oil on canvas 130 x 97 cm Pêle Mêle

Oil on canvas 81 x 116 cm Selected major exhibitions: Public Collections:

Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 Berlin, Landesbibliothek Karlskrona Konsthall, Karlskrona, Sweden, 2012 Berlin, Sammlung der Berlinischen Galerie Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2012 Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Stiftung Grafik i Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011 Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Kupferstichkabinett Galerie Charlot, Paris, France, 2010 Berlin, SMPK/Kunstbibliothek Grafiska Sällskapet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010 Boston/MA, Public Library Galleri Sander, Norrköping, Sweden, 2009 Buurgk/Saale, Museum Schloss Burg Galleri Lindqvist, Arkelstorp, Sweden, 2009 Cambridge/MA, - Houghton Library Match Artspace, New York, 2008 Chateauroux, Musee Bertrand Sörmlands Museum och Konsthall, Nyköping, Sweden, 2007 Cottbus, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Ronneby Konsthall, Ronneby, Sweden, 2007 Den Haag, Meermanno - Westreenianum Rijksmuseum Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, 2006 Dresden, Säschsische Landesbibliothek/ Staats- und UniversitŠtsbibliothek Galleri Futura, Stockholm, 2005 Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kupferstichkabinett Galleri Sander, Norrköping, Sweden, 2004 Frankfurt/Main, Deutsche Bibliothek Galleri Remi, Östersund, Sweden, 2003 Hamburg, Staatsbibliothek “Carl von Ossietzky” Stadtmuseum Speyer, Speyer, Germany, 2003 Köln, Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Stadtmuseum Jena, Jena, Germany, 2002 Leipzig, Deutsche Bücherei/Buch- und Schriftmuseum Nordiska Ministerrådet, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002 Ljungby/Sweden, Ljungby Konsthall Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, 2001 Marbach, Schiller-Nationalmuseum/ Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris, 2000 Deutsches Literaturarchiv Die Alster Villa, Hamburg, 1999 Lund/Sweden, Lunds Universitetsbiblioteket Konsthallen i Hishult, Hishult, Sweden, 1999 München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 1998 München, Lyrik-Kabinett Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris, 1998 Newark/NJ, Public Library, Special Collection Galerie Auf Zeit, Berlin, 1997 New York/NY, American Scandinavian Foundation Kunstverein Wismar, Wismar, Germany, 1997 New York/NY, Chase Manhattan Bank Galerie Area, Paris, France, (group), 1995 New York/NY, Columbia University, Special Collection Musee de Montelimar, Montelimar, France, 1994 New York/NY, Public Library, Special - Collection Kunstverein Herzattacke, Berlin, 1994 Nürnberg Germanisches Nationalmuseum Galerie Auf Zeit, Berlin, 1993 Nürnberg Institut fŸr Moderne Kunst Galerie Vitoux-Zylberman, Paris, 1993 Offenbach Klingspor-Museum Ljungby Konsthall, Ljungby, Sweden, 1992 Paris Bibliotheque Nationale Galerie Marc Espinosa, Paris, 1991 Pfaffenhofen/Bayern Stadtsparkasse Galleri Futura, Stockholm , 1988 Schwerin Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Barbara Braathen and Leo Castelli, New York, (group), 1987 Providence/Rhode island Brown University - John Hay Library Now Gallery, New York, 1986 Stanford/CA Stanford University - Green Library Stuttgart Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stockholm Kungliga biblioteket Wismar Kulturamt Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek Zürich Museum fUr Gestaltung a d a m g a l l e r y 24 CORK STREET London W1S 3NJ t: 0207 439 6633 www.adamgallery.com 13 JOHN STREET Bath BA1 2JL t: 01225 480406