A very important exhibition is taking place from 12 June to 4 October 2015 at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, P.O. Box 7014 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) is one of the most significant Scandinavian artists of the twentieth century. Her tapestries are visual responses to major and minor events, conflicts and processes. She captured the world in her weaving. In the early 1930s, she addressed fascism and the destructive consequences of Nazi power. Violence and abuse are visualised in an idiom reminiscent of modern, critical history painting. Her narrative drive goes hand in hand with a free accentuation of abstract patterns, shapes and colours. The exhibition echoes a broad renewal of interest in Ryggen’s figurative and highly captivating modernism internationally. It is produced in collaboration with the Moderna Museet in Malmö where it will be on show from 31 October 2015 to 6 March 2016. See more at:
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/exhibitions_and_events/exhibitions/national_gallery/Hannah+Ryggen.+Weaving+the+world.b7C_wlfK0f.ips#sthash.iCW2oLS0.dpuf
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