《這個，我喜歡；這個，我認為非常糟糕》

Past and present, nearby and far away are stored in layers above each other in Torsten Jurell exhibition Beyond the Lower World, exhibited in The Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Art,  Gothenburg, extended till April 29. The exhibition is based on works that Torsten Jurell in recent years created in China and now interact with the museum's historical objects. His artworks in bronze, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints and neon creates unexpected and poetic connections to the museum collection of artifacts.

Theatre Three Taihu Stones in the exhibition Beyond The Lower World at Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg Sweden.

TorstenJurell interest in Asia has been around since he was a child and dreamed of going to sea and sail to Shanghai. His father, a policeman repaired Chinese porcelain as a hobby and thus grew the Chinese imagery early into something more than just decorations at the surface.
When he was twenty years old, he began at Valand Art School, he met the colorful woodcuts from Mao's China. They made a big impact and Röhsska Museum made ​​a strong impression on his view of art as an "Asian source of knowledge" in the center of Gothenburg.
In BEYOND THE LOWER WORLD at Röhsska Museum, Torsten Jurell wants  to tie together these impressions, how knowledge has been washed back and forth across the oceans for centuries in an enjoyable game with materials and ideas.

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In BEYOND THE LOWER WORLD process Torsten Jurell his impressions from Bejing: street language, archaeological finds and the sprawling contemporary art

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BEYOND THE LOWER WORLD shows affinity between the "distant, alien" and the local, familiar.

BEYOND THE LOWER WORLD - beyond archaeological finds: Art conveys knowledge that we can put into words, but art also conveys experience beyond words. When we as viewers are faced with a thousand year old sculpture, we are in the same way in space as the sculptor when the work was created. We passed a "hand's experience," the thousand years are reduced to zero. In a new way can the old come forward and present is given a new light.

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By operating in The Röhsska museum's Asian collections, TorstenJurell with his art show affinity between this collection and the contemporary.

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Beyondthe Underworld is a maze of sculptures, paintings, art objects to be amazed as when a long distance traveler returns home and presents the findings collected during the voyage. In the exhibition the visitor will be aware of a world in the past to the present, in reality and fantasy.

Dragon Roots, plastic, bronze, wood, glass and wax

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