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Emanuel Röhss — Mother Sweden
Emanuel Röhss

Mother Sweden

A large-scale painting rendered in acrylic and alkyd enamel, Emanuel Röhss's *Mother Sweden* merges the slick, industrial finish of commercial signage with the painterly traditions of canvas. The work's hard-edged forms and synthetic surfaces evoke a tension between national identity and manufactured image, questioning the constructed mythologies embedded in cultural symbols. Röhss employs his signature blend of graphic precision and material contradiction to probe the aesthetics of power, belonging, and representation.

Medium
acrylic, alkyd enamel on canvas

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September 17, 2015

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Emanuel Röhss, Mother Sweden

A large-scale painting rendered in acrylic and alkyd enamel, Emanuel Röhss's *Mother Sweden* merges the slick, industrial finish of commercial signage with the painterly traditions of canvas. The work's hard-edged forms and synthetic surfaces evoke a tension between national identity and manufactured image, questioning the constructed mythologies embedded in cultural symbols. Röhss employs his signature blend of graphic precision and material contradiction to probe the aesthetics of power, belonging, and representation.

Medium
acrylic, alkyd enamel on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Muted Color Palette, Figurative Painting, Nationalistic Themes, Acrylic On Canvas, Muted Palette, Male Artist, Provocative Mood, National Identity, Swedish Artist, Allegorical Subject, Emerging Artist, Symbolic Subject Matter, Contemporary Artist, Modern Art, Nationalistic Imagery, Symbolic Art, Canvas Painting, Political Art, Mixed Media Painting, Symbolic Imagery, Cool Color Palette, Acrylic And Enamel

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