DARK TRANQUILLITY Guitarist Announces Public Art Exhibition In Transylvania

August 12, 2010

In conjunction with DARK TRANQUILLITY's appearance at the ARTmania festival, guitarist Niklas Sundin will showcase a new collection of artwork at the Bohemian flow club in Sibiu, Transylvania. Entitled "Ichtys", the exhibition opens on August 14 and will be on display for a month.

Says Sundin: "Needless to say, I'm really excited about this. There have been previous requests from people wanting to feature my artwork in public exhibitions, but I've always had mixed feelings. It wouldn't be too interesting to just display the album artwork that I'm primary recognized for, so I've wanted to wait until I had something that would be completely free of any connotations to commissioned music industry work and at the same time have a certain red thread, conceptually and aesthetically.

"The 'Ichtys' images are mainly derived from pencil drawings that are scanned, treated and assembled into collages, and the result is part medieval woodcut, part religious iconography and part nautical cartoon profanity. Influences range from Dürer and Bosch to David B and Joakim Pirinen, and there's obviously a major resemblance to my own 'Gadus Morhua' books.

"The city of Sibiu seems to be an appropriate setting for this kind of amalgam of old and new, so I was very pleased when the ARTmania people suggested that I'd exhibit something."

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