A carpet /tapestry, 'Utan titel' ('untitled') flat weave and knotted pile, c 202 x 158 cm, signed AB MMF MLE
(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Marie-Louise Ekman). Textile Artwork of the Year 2002 for AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström. Made in a unique edition by the weaver Birgit Svensson
Exhibitions
Märta Måås-Fjetterströms studio, Båstad, Agardhsgatan, 2002
The Swedish Consulate, One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, 2002.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, 'Märta flyger igen! 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström', 2 October 2009 - 6 January 2010.
Literature
Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Angelica Persson, "Märta flyger igen! : 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström", 2009, illustrated on plate in colour p. 20
More information
Marie-Louise Ekman’s textile artwork, “Untitled”, from 2002 became the spark that ushered in an entirely new era in the history of Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB. Invited contemporary artists subsequently created unique works at the historic weaving mill in Båstad between 2002 and 2014. It all began in 2001, when MMF’s distinguished Art Council was established. The Council’s primary task was to appoint the artists invited to create the “Textile Artwork of the Year”, woven as a unique piece at Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB in Båstad.
Between 2002 and 2014, eleven unique textile artworks were created at the studio in Båstad:
Marie-Louise Ekman, “Untitled”, 2002,
Elis Ernst Eriksson, “The Peeping Tom”, 2003,
Jockum Nordström, “The Coachman”, 2004,
Maria Miesenberger, “Brain Carpet”, 2005,
Jens Fänge, “Upstairs”, 2006,
Charlotte Gyllenhammar, “On the Carpet”, 2007,
Cecilia Edefalk, “Double White Venus”, 2008,
H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, “Coastal Landscape”, 2009,
Olafur Eliasson, “The green glass carpet”, 2010,
Ylva Ogland Snöfrid, “Distillary Pictogram”, 2012,
Karin Mamma Andersson, “The Atlantic”, 2014.
The eleven aforementioned works from Märta Måås-Fjetterström AB are now held in private collections and institutions. Cecilia Edefalk’s work “Double White Venus” (2008) is part of the Government Offices of Sweden’s art collection in Stockholm and was acquired by Public Art Agency Sweden in 2008.
More about Marie-Louise Ekman
Marie-Louise Ekman is without a doubt one of Sweden's most eccentric artists. The consistency in her expression is striking, with a distinctive language that is unmistakably her own.
Ekman's artistry is timeless and continuously relevent. She is a leading and influential artist who often depicts everyday environments, but does not align herself with the absurdist and surrealist art forms. She travels unhindered over artistic buondaries and often ustilises art historical references, incorporating them with pop-culture references. Ekmans konstnärskap har i mycket präglats av hennes anarkistiska och klarsynta angrepp på normalitet som ständigt har manifesterats i en spännvidd som låtit henne ingå i kretsen kring den inflytelserika undergroundtidningen "Puss" och med separatutställningar på Galerie Aronowitsch.
When looking closer at her multifaceted artisty one discovers that she is a recycler. There is barely a motif that is not repeated in more than one context, not a figure that does not stir up déjà vu. One first encounters these elements in objects or paintins, then in movies, tv-seris and radio programmes. Although the media sources vary in theme and tone over the decades, Ekman continues to reference media through her art, and it is thanks to this that Ekman feels forever young.
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