GRETHE SØRENSEN, 10 September - 29 October 2022
Feelings of Light on a Dark Night in Tokyo: GRETHE SØRENSEN
Past exhibition
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"Textile is the continuing theme in my life.I am fascinated by fibers and weaving techniques. Exploration of the two systems of threads — warp and weft crossing on another — is a continuous challenge. I am fascinated by constructing matter by means of thread – three-dimensional shapes or two-dimensional planes with shapes and colors — in which the material, the structure and the weaving techniques are necessary and indispensable parts of the matter."- Grethe Sørensen
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Galerie Maria Wettergren is delighted to present its third solo exhibition with the Danish textile artist, Grethe Sørensen (born 1947). Recognized worldwide as a pioneer in the field of art weaving in association with the digital world, Sørensen is inspired by optical light phenomena, which she transforms into large wall tapestries. In 2017, Sørensen received the Nordic Award in Textiles, and her works are held in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, USA, 21C Museum Hotel in Cincinnati, USA and Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.The works in the exhibition Feelings of Light on a Dark Night in Tokyo emerged from the artist’s personal experience with city light after nightfall in Tokyo. In the Light Reflection tapestries, Sørensen transforms the Nippon metropolis and its busy traffic lights, into soft, pulsating dreamscapes. Their ample, semi-circular lines and vibrating colors on dark backgrounds derive from headlights and traffic lights, reflected on an aluminum wall plate on the side of one of Tokyo’s bustling roads. Fascinated by the rich and ever-changing patterns and colors of light, Sørensen first recorded the scenes in video together with her partner, film director Bo Hovgaard, before meticulously translating the pixels of light into subtle patterns of woven threads on a Jacquard loom at the Tilburg Textile Museum in The Netherlands.
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Artworks
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About the artist
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