Friends of Eldridge Optician and Oscar Magnuson gathered for a luxurious dinner last week at the gallery on Birger Jarlsgatan, Stockholm. The space is currently in use as Ylva Ogland’s studio as she prepares for her upcoming show in November so unfinished paintings and paint brush strewn around lent themselves to the ambience of artiness. The black chairs and white table cloths echoed the monochrome artwork, sparkling conversation was helped by another sparkling, beautiful thing – Krug champagne, and the cuisine was served by fine dining restaurant Vassa Eggen.

Eldridge Optician/Fruit and Flower Deli is pleased to present “t-a-l-i-s-m-a-n-i-c,” a solo show by
Lucie Fontaine.

With work spanning from performance to archival projects to sculpture, the Berlin-based American artist David Adamo has been keeping busy: He has had three solo shows a year for four years running and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” in 2010. OMQ recently caught up with him in a studio in Long Island City, where he was preparing for a May show at the New York gallery Untitled, to talk about deathcore, tomatoes, and chopping wood.

Monument by David Adamo at Eldridge Optician. Courtesy Fruit and Flower Deli, Stockholm, 2011. Photo by Erika Svensson.

We are proud to present Untitled (Monument), David Adamo’s second solo show with Fruit and Flower Deli, and his first solo show in Scandinavia.

Rodrigo Mallea Lira

The mystery behind the enigmatic Eldridge Optician is at last uncovered as we question the Keeper of Fruit & Flower Deli, Rodrigo Mallea Lira about art, vodka, unusual partnerships and versions of reality.

Karl Holmqvist wearing the Karl frame by Oscar Magnuson

Art project Fruit & Flower Deli again enters the world of Oscar Magnuson via a work multi-layered with meaning and draped in questions of identity and time. Artist Karl Holmqvist has exchanged a pair of his spectacles, that he’s owned since 1998 for a new pair designed by Oscar Magnuson, and transformed the original spectacles into art. Engraved on the frames in black lettering, one will find, “Every Minute, Every Hour, Fruit & Flower 1998-2010”. These soon to be famous spectacles will be exhibited at the shifting gallery space Fruit & Flower Deli in Stockholm. Oscar Magnuson first collaborated with Fruit & Flower Deli in New York with the Manhattan space Eldridge Opticians, earlier this year. Both parties are transfixed with the notion of identity and disguise.

Eldridge Optician

Once again Eldridge Optician opened its doors, this time with the courtesy of Stockholm's Gallery Crystal Palace. In their old space at Karlbergsgatan regulars mixed with ordinaries and soon turned the cool Stockholm April spring into a steaming mist. To find out where Eldridge Optician opens next please join its new page on Facebook.

Oscar Magnuson had the honour of releasing the new sun collection at Eldridge Optician. Situated in L.E.S Manahattan the place was packed with interesting personalities toasting this special night with champagne. Find out who was there...
www.eldridgeoptician.com