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Tirsdag-fredag: 12-17
Lørdag-søndag: 12-16
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Exhibitions

Annika Ekdahl
Road Movie (verdure): Visiting Mom

25 November - 2 January 2011

Welcome to the opening of Annika Ekdahl's exhibition on Thursday November 25 at 7 pm. We are pleased to introduce a monumental tapestry that has not previously been shown. A perennial and very time-consuming work process has been completed, and the result is presented to the Norwegian public at SOFT gallery.

The exhibition will be opened by the Australian textile artist Brett Alexander.

Ekdahl is internationally known for her monumental, colorful and technically detailed tapestries. Her complex tapestries was last presented in Norway during her solo exhibition at Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg in 2008.

In making the work "Road Movie (verdure): Visiting Mom", Ekdahl has been inspired for the first time by the traditional group of tapestries from the 1500s, called "verdure", which depicts a world rich in vegetation, animals and fantasy figures. The content of the work deals with universal themes related to death.

Ekdahl are keen to investigate the possibilities of the tapestry techniques. She has a close relation to the European tapestry traditions and she continues, or even further refines, the fascinating heritage through her work. Ekdahl is inspired by how artists hundreds of years ago could express what was important, valuable and beautiful to mankind by the two-dimensional visual language of tapestry.

Annika Ekdahl (b.1955, Stockholm) lives in Blekinge, Sweden. She is a graduate of the University of Gothenburg, Department of Design and Craft, and has since 1980 participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. She has received numerous awards, including 1st prize in the exhibition "The 3rd European Textile and Fibre Triennial" in Riga, Latvia, 2007, and has had a number of commissions of public art projects. Ekdahl is Professor of Textiles at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Please note that the gallery is closed during the period December 24 - January 2, but the exhibition can still be seen from street level through our large front window.

Press Contact: Janicke Iversen, dl@softgalleri.no, +47 47481770