Anita Gordh – Matter! A light- and soundsculpture in collaboration with C M von Hausswolff.

Exhibition
Main hall, Färgfabriken

»When I’m painting, I know that I’m trying to describe something that I once have seen, but since forgotten.«

The longing for light, the driving force in the art of Anita Gordh, has through the years been given form to in various materials. The development of her work spans over four decades. The recurring and fundamental element in her constant experimentation is a genuine interest for motion. The motion that Anita Gordh seeks encapsulates a single, tranquil point. A state of balance, where the dynamic and the static are two sides of the same matter. Her plexi-glass sculptures form an integral part of this condition. With that attitude, it becomes natural for her to abandon final results, and to exceed genre boundaries. This has manifested itself through collaborations with musicians and coreographers, as her works have been integrated in various forms of performance.

In Färgfabriken’s current main exhibition MATTER!, Gordh has collaborated with the artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, who in turn has composed a unique audio work, that will permeate the sole sculpture in the main exhibition hall. Carl Michael von Hausswolff has since the end of the 1970’s worked as a composer, with the tape recorder as his premier tool. As a conceptual artist, he is world-renowned for his audio performances, his light- and sound sculptures and for his photography. In addition, he is a permanent guest curator at Färgfabriken, and has curated exhibitions by artists such as Friedrich Jürgensson, Leif Elggren, Rune Lindblad, Brion Gysin, Max Fredriksson, Henrik Rylander and Henrik Andersson.