Summer is coming. But it only comes for those who know how to wait, as quiet and open as if they had eternity ahead of them. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

A celebration of the sea and the sun gravitates around the works in the group exhibition, Summertime, at Galerie Maria Wettergren. A hymn to light, warmth, patience and slowness, as if we had eternity ahead of us. From the outset, My Golden Horizon, a radiant sunset in gold leaf by Astrid Krogh, delicately folded and modulated in a play of light and shadow, is paired with the deep, undulating face of the sea in Water Mirror / Jels, a wall tapestry by Grethe Soerensen, meticulously woven from photographic pixels. In Lapisblue. Opaque and Transparent by Tora Urup, an infinite blue color floats inside a volume of blown glass, appearing liquid, as if it were about to overflow. Etienne Bertrand Weill’s kinetic photograph Solaireevokes the spiritual, blinding force of the sun, while his work Mirage sous la Mer seems to touch on the profound mysteries of the sea. Looking to the forces of nature and the soul, Hanne Friis’ The Waves and Flood sweep us away with their theatrical flow of textiles, folded and sewn, while Gjertrud Hals’s weaving of metal wire, Gemini, a dream-catcher with its small objects found on the beach or by the roadside, such as pieces of watches, small plastic figurines, soda capsules, evokes the wonderful treasures of childhood. The ethereal quality of Vaporize, a glass sculpture by Ilkka Suppanen, takes us back to water and light, with its reflective particles at the heart of the solid glass, recalling the shimmering, flickering surface of the sea on a hot summer’s day.

To let the eye wander, to let the spirit soar, seems to be the aspiration of these works. What is it like to have eternity ahead of you? No one knows. Yet nature, poetry and art are constantly preparing us for this utopian state.

It has been found again. What? – 

Eternity

It’s the sea gone

With the sun.

(Arthur Rimbaud)