Blau Grau Bronze
From 10/03/2024
Openening 10/02/2024, 7:00 PM
Cecilia Edefalk is recognised as one of Scandinavia’s most important contemporary painters. Born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1954, she has made a name for herself throughout her career with her unique and often enigmatic works. Edefalk is known for her work, which is characterised by a subtle colour palette, clear compositions and strong symbolic meaning.
Her artworks, which are often created in series or as variations on a theme, explore themes such as time, transience and repetition. Edefalk often experiments with the way vision and perception work in art. She plays with light and shadow to create an almost meditative quality in her works, leaving room for interpretation by the viewer.
Edefalk’s best-known works are the paintings ‘En annan rörelse’ (1990-1991), a series of works depicting a woman in repetitive motion. The series is an example of Edefalk’s interest in the study of time and change through repetition. Her work is strongly inspired by nature and often depicts plants, landscapes and natural phenomena.
New exhibition in Donaueschingen:
In her current exhibition at the Fürstlich Fürstenberg Collections in Donaueschingen, Cecilia Edefalk is showing a selection of paintings, photographs and sculptural installations. Some of these works refer to her stay in Champagne. For the new paintings on show, she has used materials from this region, which gives her works a special connection to the landscape and history of Champagne.
Edefalk is appreciated not only for her masterful technique and deep understanding of colour and form, but also for her ability to use art as a way of thinking and reflecting on the fundamental questions of life. She is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world – and is considered by many to be an ‘artist’s artist’ whose work explores the boundaries between reality and imagination, between the visible and the invisible.
Biography:
Cecilia Edefalk (*1954 in Norrköping) lives and works in Stockholm. Her work has been the subject of major retrospectives, including at Norrköping Art Museum in 2020 and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde in Stockholm in 2016. Her solo museum exhibitions include the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the Parasol unit in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Malmö Konstmuseum, the Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, the Kunsthalle Kiel in Germany and the K