Maskrosor, minne och mystik. : En studie i Cecilia Edefalks bildvärld.
Sammanfattning: English titel: Dandelions, memory and mysticism in the image world of Cecilia Edefalk. Content: Cecilia Edefalk (born 1954) is one of the most wellknown and respected artists in Sweden and worldwide. She started out as a postmodernist with today iconic works as ”Baby” and ”Another movement” in the late 80´s. Gradually she has switched her focus towards a more minimalistic expression with a great interest to visualize the invisible world. She here operates in the same tradition as many painters from the beginning of the 20th century, as Vassilij Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint - the later has she acknowledged as one of her major influences. The essay´s aim is to analyze ten of her major works from the late 90´s and forward from the starting point: How does she reproduce the spiritual world in her highly personal visual language? She has an aesthetical dimension as well as an ideological foundation as an artist with the conceptual thinking as starting point. Simultaneously she has a romantic vein and her work reflects her strong sense of intuition and feeling, present in all her techniques as painting (tempera), video, spatial and sound installation and sculpture. In her most recent series (she often works with a repetition of motives and themes over a length of time, using the notion of memory to recreate and rebuild certain images. She arranges seed heads of dandelions into still lifes as an image of fragility in nature. The dandelion becomes a vivid metaphor of natures susceptibility to decay. Hereby she creates a tension between the ephemeral and the eternal. The recreation of Marcus Aurelius head into a bronzer sculpture as well as her ”blowball” reflects the repetitious cycle of nature and our own fragility. Key words: invisibility, Hilma af Klint, the spiritual world, conceptual thinking, romanticism, repetition of motives, fragility, cycle of nature, eternity.
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