Louise Nevelson
By: [redaktör, Jo Widoff ; översättning, Hans Berggren, Bettina Schultz]
Contributors: Widoff, Jo; Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Series: Moderna Museets utställningskatalog -- nr 396 = -- Moderna Museet exhibition catalogue -- no. 396; Moderna museets utställningskatalog -- nr 396.
Publisher: Moderna Museet
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: swe
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9789186243890
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: Influenced by cubism and the German-French artist Jean Arp, Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) began early in her career to make sculptures and assemblages out of wood objects she found in the street. By painting them matte black, she combined the separate elements into a totality. For Nevelson, black represented all colours in one, and the harmony she sought in her art. In the 1950s, the sculptures left their plinths and filled entire walls, like large altarpieces. In monochrome black, and later white and gold, Nevelson now created sculpture groups out of lathed chair legs, balusters and scraps of wood, in a scale approaching abstract expressionist paintings. Her monumental works evoke something spiritual and eternal, and express a deeply personal mythology. At the time when Nevelson's sculptures were taking on more spatial, large-scale dimensions, she was discovering another style in the collage, which enabled her to easily and intuitively explore subjects in smaller formats. Slips of paper, newspaper cuttings and sooty scraps of wood were combined into poetic observations of the overlooked objects, not unlike the German artist Kurt Schwitters' Merz works. "I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony" - Louise Nevelson. Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (09.09.2017-14.01.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September 9, 2017-January 14, 2018.

In Swedish and English.