Resin, pigment, varnish
Resin, pigment, varnish
Resin, pigment, varnish
FIVE! Kristianstads Konsthall SE
David Nilsons works sets of from a realistic image-world that seems to arise from two different directions; elements of time and the everyday object. In company with these sculptures we find ourselves in dreamlike and precarious situations.
The sculptures are created with the subtle ingenious that have become his trademark. What may look like a readymade is actually a version of an already existing object. The varied ways he uses resin allows him to build sculptures from scratch and at the same time letting them have a relation to the painted picture, both as a motive and as a physical object – I can grind, shape, cast and reshape..
He’s methods allows him to model with the opaque and the transparent. He embraces the faux qualities in plastic to create both a present object and a distant image. A sensation, captivated by a trivial item. Reality and fiction at the same time. Or with his own words – As a painting in the air.
Exhibition text FIVE! Kristianstads Konsthall 2025
Resin, pigment, LED
” I’m recreating this experience; the colors of the horizon blended in with the all the taillights on the road in front of me, chasing time towards the first or last sunlight of the day, and my tired eyes couldn’t tell the difference between them.
Resin, pigment, LED
Resin, pigment, LED, steel
Resin, LED, concrete
Resin, pigment, LED, steel
Resin, LED, concrete
Strong emotions and mystery. This exhibition invited visitors to enter a world of images that frightens, entices and opens up to unknown spaces. That turns everyday life into poetry and leaves room for you to feel and interpret. The romanticism was an era in art history that left traces we still follow today.
Resin, pigment, LED, steel
Resin, pigment, LED, steel
Resin, pigment, varnish
Resin, pigment, varnish
CHART Art fair in Tivoli / Arnstedt Gallery
CHART Art fair in Tivoli / Arnstedt Gallery
As dreamers do Bohusläns museum SE
Icicles form in winter. Pendant forms of ice are created when meltwater freezes just as it´s about to drop. A movement is captured and converted into form. David Nilson´s works are sculpted in clay and then cast in resin in cold tones. Gravity strives downwards, but the fall is stopped abruptly – a moment is frozen and becomes an image. These sculptures pop as unexpected features of interior environments, as though nature has moved indoors and made itself at home. They are icicles removed from their process of creation, transposed from context to sculpture. What we see here is a disrupted chronology in which a fluid stream har stopped to sleep.
Exhibition catalogue In the city grows a field Malmö Konsthall 2022
