Övergångar
Subtitle: Transformations
By: Erla S. Haraldsdóttir ; utställningskommissarie, Lena Sjöstrand ; text, Lena Sjöstrand, Craniv A. Boyd
Contributors: Lunds domkyrka
Publisher: Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: swe; eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789189270138
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art; Resurrection
Other titles: Transformations; Erla S. Haraldsdóttir :; Erla S. Haraldsdóttir :
Description: Transformations features reproductions and details of the Icelandic artist's recent paintings, drawings, and mosaics, from a project that she began in 2020: Taking the symbolism that surrounds the holiday of Easter as a departure point, Erla S. Haraldsdóttir utilizes figurative oil painting to construct playful and highly personal interpretations that present 21st century imagery of the death and resurrection of Christ. Paintings that remain open-ended and ambiguous at the same time. Her art practice cites heavily from a broad range of cultural production, including the Western canon of art history, regional early modern painters from Iceland, South African murals of the Ndebele people, the Benin Bronzes, personal family photographs, and medieval illuminated manuscripts. These varied sources are then arranged according to an at times secret logic driven by tasks that the artist will execute in a method of creating art based on rules and restrictions, structures adopted from the French literary movement OULIPO. Her skillful large format paintings create tableaux that invite viewers to consider possible worlds infused with symbolism, memory, landscape, interiors and kinship. Exhibition: Crypt of Lund Cathedral, Sweden (20.03. - 20.04.2021).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden, March 20-April 20, 2021.

Title from cover; parallel title from added title page.

Swedish and English.