Ida Ekblad at Bonniers Konsthall
September 2nd, 2010
Artist: Ida Ekblad
Venue: Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Exhibition Title: Digging. Treasure.
Date: August 27 – October 24, 2010
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
Images courtesy of Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Press Release:
Bonniers Konsthall begins its autumn season with the young Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad, who holds her first exhibition in Sweden. Ida Ekblad creates new works especially for the exhibition, which covers everything from expressionist painting and poems to metal sculptures and large concrete reliefs. During summer, Ida Ekblad has been working on site in Stockholm and collected material for her sculptures from the city’s containers and scrapyards.
Ida Ekblad relates, in a natural way, to a tradition of painting and sculpture. Combining free and spontaneous painterly gestures with a graffiti culture, she is quite at home among popular culture and street culture’s teeming flora of expressions. At first sight, we see painting and sculpture of a neoexpressionist idiom. However, look closer and our contemporary age appears in the form of parts of copper wire, corrugated iron and deformed cymbals in what is the raw material of Ekblad’s sculptures. The materials and found objects function as reminders of our time’s mass produced and industrial abundance, which have been spared its fate to rot in a container and been merged into new entities.
Ida Ekblad (born 1980) is part of a young generation of artists who, in recent years, have contributed to the revitalisation of Oslo’s art scene. In collaboration with a couple of artist friends she has run the gallery Willy Wonka Inc in Oslo. Ida Ekblad is also part of a wider, international context and has held gallery exhibitions in, among others, Berlin and Paris, and participated in group shows such as Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum in New York.
Link: Ida Ekblad at Bonniers Konsthall
3 Responses to “Ida Ekblad at Bonniers Konsthall”
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September 2nd, 2010 at 10:18 am
this work has a look to it but thats about all.
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 am
indeed, it “looks” nice, but far too overrated artist. fashion art for fashion people.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:33 am
These are interesting responses; I wonder if they might be elaborated.
What about this work makes it feel shallow? Is it that the work is largely abstract? That it happens to line up with a sense you have of a “trend,” or that her work with various media implies a lack of conviction? That its concerns seem to you mostly formal?