Portrait of a friend
A few years ago I painted a portrait for one of my oldest friends; inspired by him, kind and careful, with a cup of coffee in his hand, he sat surrounded by wine crates.
Something happened when I built an environment with the crates; I knew I wanted to do more with this amazing environment of fragile, easily overturned towers with squiggly logos and chimpanzees that restlessly or mischievously found their place among the crates as if it were a sofa group. But I also thought that it would be difficult to make a whole big exhibition without it feeling too repetitive, I also thought that I would have a hard time explaining why I painted wine crates. Now, four years after I painted the first of these pictures, I see a nice series of paintings that make me proud, inspired by a friend. The excitement is that as soon as you put a chimpanzee in a human coded environment, you stop seeing an animal and focus instead on our similarities, and that even though we have 99% the same DNA, they live in symbiosis with nature while we live out of it.
-Bobo Wallmansson
A word from Pontus Klingspor
As I've had the great opportunity to follow Bobo's working process closely for the last years I get more and more impressed - his dedication to every piece of art, his meticulous research of motives, motions and colours and his close relationship to his work - I see as the key to his success.
The response to his art is imidiate and the paintings evoke acquisitiveness. The audience always wants more! Bobos’ followers and collectors are very dedicated and have been faithful through out the years. Beside the chimpanzees the colours are his signum - always the air of being updated, always on spot and in bold combinations.
Humanity and a warm meeting of nature - feelings that are recognizable around the globe. The great response and the fact that the art world is now showing a great interest in his work is fantastic and the journey has just started!
Pontus Klingspor, gallerist and agent
A WORD FROM PONTUS KLINGSPOR
As I've had the great opportunity to follow Bobo's working process closely for the last years I get more and more impressed - his dedication to every piece of art, his meticulous research of motives, motions and colours and his close relationship to his work - I see as the key to his success.
The response to his art is imidiate and the paintings evoke acquisitiveness. The audience always wants more! Bobos’ followers and collectors are very dedicated and have been faithful through out the years. Beside the chimpanzees the colours are his signum - always the air of being updated, always on spot and in bold combinations. Humanity and a warm meeting of nature - feelings that are recognizable around the globe. The great response and the fact that the art world is now showing a great interest in his work is fantastic and the journey has just started!
Pontus Klingspor, gallerist and agent
