#Frozen orbit series#
The inner room features the series Tattooed Dream Barns, eleven smaller paintings. The paintings are magnificently detailed, enhanced by lively contrasts between shadow and light in black and white nuances. Slowly a tangle of trees, branches, brushwood and Nordic fauna emerges from the dark, as though our eyes gradually adjust to the bleak, white moonlight and discover things one by one in the scene. Samuelsson’s suggestive paintings describe a superficially serene forest landscape in strong moonlight. The title refers to the “Wolf’s Hour”, the mythical hour between four and five in the morning, when the birth rate and death rate are higher than at any other time, and when body and soul can feel more vulnerable to inner and outer demons.
The series will eventually consist of eleven paintings. In the first gallery room, the two earliest paintings in the Frozen Orbit series are presented. This is the first time these paintings are shown in a larger context, highlighting new, intriguing aspects of Henrik Samuelsson’s multifaceted oeuvre. The exhibition comprises works from two different series, of which one was previously featured by the curator Jan Åman for one day at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2012. For the first time, Galleri Flach has the pleasure of showing paintings by Henrik Samuelsson in the exhibition Frozen Orbit + Tattooed Dream Barns Revisited.
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