BOOK: Mamma Andersson-Adieu Maria Magdalena, David Zwirner Books
Mama Andersson’s “Adieu Maria Magdalena” positions itself deliberately within a Northern European painterly lineage, drawing on the psychological restraint of Carl Fredrik Hill and the austere interiority of Vilhelm Hammershøi. Yet Andersson’s engagement with these precedents is neither nostalgic nor reverential; rather, it is instrumental. The tension she constructs between …