Håkan Askmark was born in Lund, Sweden and resides in Uppsala Sweden.
He started his artistic path as a cartoonist in Swedish medical journals. His first exhibition, in a larger context, was at Lunda Bienallen, Lunds konsthall 1983. His artistic output is rather small and first after his participation in Liljevalchs Spring Salon in Stockholm 2002 he started having solo exhibitions.
Håkan Askmark often paints cityscapes populated by stereotypic faceless persons in paradoxical situations illustrating conformism and exclusion. It is the men and women, sometimes with their dogs, who create a balance of seriousness, lack of contact, desire for contact and humour in the paintings.
”I want the viewer to recognize something (him-/herself, a situation, an environment) in the paintings at the same time as I want to make him or her a bit contemplative.”
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