VERNISSAGE | THE EROSION OF REASON

Gustaf explores the dynamic interplay between physical and mental images through figurative painting. An interaction that, according to him, inevitably challenges our realistic relationship with the image and its references. In his work, Gustaf reflects the idea that the properties of an image cannot be observed without distortion; that the image transcends both its physical form and the

observer's mind—where some of its properties reside—once it is observed. His creative process is rooted in ideas and theories, unfolding through a deductive process of accumulation where visual impulses are dramatized and brought to life in a private associative play. As these associations develop, a hyper-image eventually emerge from the fragmentary contexts that initially shaped

it, and it is these hyper-images that interest him on a theoretical level.

Gustaf argues that the implicit nature of the hyper-image is impossible to separate from our perceptual frame of reference, even when its explicit form…