Andreas Diaz Andersson. Vattendroppar

Cadogan Gallery is delighted to announce Vattendroppar, the second solo exhibition of Mexican-Swedish artist Andreas Diaz Andersson and the first to be hosted at the Milan venue from 10 April to 11 May 2024.


Vattendroppar, which means water droplets in Swedish, presents a new series of works in which concentric circles are the main subject. The shapes, made with small straight lines threaded onto the raw canvas, are regular yet naturalistic, emulating the waves that form when something is dropped into water.

In doing so, Diaz Andersson's works are characterised by an ambivalent nature that combines a fluid and naturalistic visual language with a geometric and ordered formalism.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a sound installation, designed by Diaz Andersson to complement his thread painting.

Simultaneously, Cadogan SOLO's space hosts one of the kinetic mirrors from the XYZT series by Edoardo Dionea Cicconi, artist who had exhibited together with Diaz Andersson at Palazzo Imperatore in Palermo between June and July 2023.

Andreas Diaz-Andersson (Falsterbo, 1989) is a Swedish-Mexican artist known for his minimalist but extremely meticulous abstractions. Diaz-Andersson's work is defined by a harmonious use of shapes and lines, achieved by means of textiles and various painting media such as acrylic, plasticine, and spray paint on cotton canvas. When viewed from a distance, these carefully crafted compositions may seem simple, but the complexity of his works becomes clearer upon close examination.
Made with exceptional precision and meticulous attention to detail, the works are an exploration of depth and form, poised between illusion and abstraction. Playing with different colors and textures, his canvases achieve a quality of spatial reflection. The physical, spatial and conceptual depth of the canvas fluctuates according to the viewer's position, creating a constant variation of dynamic geometric patterns and deep vanishing points.

Operating since 1980, Cadogan Gallery has always been distinguished by its careful support of emerging, mid-career, established or critically acclaimed artists, and also by an unwavering commitment to nurturing relationships with generations of collectors and artists for over 40 years. Alongside its first gallery in South Kensington, London, and a temporary space for special projects in Hampshire, Cadogan now adds an international perspective to its exhibition programme by opening its first international venue in Milan. From spring 2023, in a typically Milanese light-filled space, with an approach focused on highlighting individual artists and a clear aesthetic identity, the new space will be the perfect place to showcase not only works by artists who have grown up with the gallery, but also an emerging new generation.