Signe Emdal - FANTASIA

Galerie Maria Wettergren

Dates

8 Sep - 25 Nov, 2023

Tuesday to Saturday : 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Location

Galerie Maria Wettergren

121 Rue Vieille-du-Temple 75003 Paris, France, Paris

Signe Emdal - FANTASIA

FANTASIA, Signe Emdal’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Maria Wettergren, appears as a fluid stream of works and places: From Casa Balandra (Mallorca) to Rome over Copenhagen and Skagen in Denmark, the Danish textile artist has been working on a new family of textile sculptures, handwoven in Icelandic wool. Using her signature fusion technique, TOUCH, based on a merge of a carpet knot technique and a special brushing made by the artist, Emdal delicately weaves the wool fibers into subtle layers of fur-like poetry.

Emdal characterizes herself as a textile composer, transforming emotions and ambiances into tangible textile structures, and her works are ethereal and poetical like music. Inspired by textile traditions of the past, yet with a strong futuristic appearance, Emdal’s wool sculptures evoke hybrid aesthetics and timeframes with widespread associations, such as animal furs, butterflies, ceremonial artefacts and luscious parures. Delicate, sensitive and seductive, the sculptures vibrate with the slightest air vibration and seem alive, like creatures from outer space, or like exotic species from the deep sea, equally a great inspiration to Emdal, besides science fiction and music.

HoursTuesday to Saturday : 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
VenueGalerie Maria Wettergren
TypeTextile Exhibition
Duration11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
CityParis

About

Galerie Maria Wettergren

Maria Wettergren opened her gallery in 2010 in Paris Saint Germain and specializes in contemporary Scandinavian design and art. The gallery equally represents unique and limited edition works by Japanese designers, as well as kinetic photographs by modernist artists. In 2013, Maria Wettergren was included in the magazine Art + Auction’s annual Power 100 issue of the 100 most important people from the art world, and in 2014 she received the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize. Maria Wettergren believes in the interdisciplinary dialogue between art, design, crafts and architecture. Today, radical exchanges are taking place with minds and materials pooling into multi-faceted collaborations where high-technological innovations meet craftsmanship and art. Maria Wettergren represents contemporary Scandinavian designers in the center of this phenomenon, whose poetic and pioneering works are part of important private and/or public museum collections such as the MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The gallery is permanently participating in the international art and design fairs such as the Design Miami/Basel, PAD Paris/London, Art Salon/New York and FIAC (hors les murs).

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