
FREDRIK NILSEN STUDIO/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ART:CONCEPT, PARIS
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FREDRIK NILSEN STUDIO/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ART:CONCEPT, PARIS
To make the works, Hylden overlapped the aluminum panels with the silk-screened images. He then sprayed or swept paint over several panels at once, leaving behind evidence of his process in hard-edged voids and fading spatters. Clearly influenced by such artists as Andy Warhol and Christopher Wool, Hylden combines impersonal with gestural marks to produce surprisingly sensuous paintings. At the same time, despite the images’ matter-of-fact simplicity, the series also permits a possible narrative to emerge, with the ghostly, three-legged tripod becoming a stand-in for the artist himself and the chair substituting for the viewer, insinuating his or herself into the picture.