Andreas Englund lives in Stockholm and is known for his humorous oil paintings of imaginary superheroes in everyday situations. These paintings are not only fascinating excerpts from a story that the viewer unconsciously continues to spin, but are also very captivating thanks to their extreme photorealism. Englund creates his works partly on canvas and partly as murals on the street. His works are part of this year's URBAN NATION exhibition "UN-DERSTAND The Power of Art as a Social Architect". […]
Andreas Englund lives in Stockholm and is known for his humorous oil paintings of imaginary superheroes in everyday situations. These paintings are not only fascinating excerpts from a story that the viewer unconsciously continues to spin, but are also very captivating thanks to their extreme photorealism. Englund creates his works partly on canvas and partly as murals on the street. His works are part of this year’s URBAN NATION exhibition “UN-DERSTAND The Power of Art as a Social Architect”.
If you are looking for humour and storytelling in urban art, you only have to look at the works of Andreas Englund. He uses elements of culture and pop culture, mixes them up at will and gives them a unique, human and sometimes even Monty Python-like touch. Englund’s captivating works on canvas or concrete are characterised by his hyper-realistic style. Thanks to the clarity of the artistic expression, the viewer is given a deep insight into a story that they themselves must finish. The result is entertaining works that work well on canvas and house walls, but also an oeuvre that deepens the unselfconscious relationship between art and viewer through a very intimate form of communication.
His artwork “SWEDISH SUMMER” is currently on display in the exhibition “Talking…& Other Banana Skins“.
