The painting Color Psychology And Color Therapy is from the series of paintings based on book covers, and this particular one is from a book from 1978 by author Faber Birren with the same titel. Translated into an artwork, the minimal and reduced surface becomes a visual manifestation of a factual study of the influence of color on human life. Underneath color surface, the implications of violence, politics, class struggle and revolution may be sensed. However you never feel completely certain.
Gardar Eide Einarsson works with the notion of sub cultures and how to access these environments. Einarsson addresses this subject matter through diverse media as installations, paintings, sculptures etc. The notion of subversion and the undermining of the establishment is present, yet without being an aspiration of the artist, this obviously relate to the anti institutional and to the interference of concepts of freedom and the structures and organisations in society.
Gardar Eide Einarsson (b. 1976, Oslo, NO) lives and works in Tokyo, JP.
Einarsson has exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall, NO; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE; Reykjavik Art Museum. IS; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO; Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, US; Kunsthalle Wien, AU; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX; a.o.
