Anne Mette Larsen
Winter waltz. No.1, 2023
Signed, dated and titled backside.
Tabby in three layers, dyed thin and thick paper yarn
116 x 98 cm
45 5/8 x 38 5/8 in
We are pleased to return to MARKET Art Fair with a duo presentation with Susanne Wellm (b.1965) and Anne Mette Larsen (1962). Both artists work with textiles
Susanne Wellm works with photography as her primary medium. Since the 1990s she has explored various photographic techniques, both analogue and digital, often artistically utilised in a merged form. Delving into the physical qualities of the two-dimensional image, she developed a method combining photography, weaving and surface threading, adding complex, tactile layers of colour, contrast, and depth to the expression of the artworks. Wellm studied photography and printmaking at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen after which she studied in the department for Unik Textiles. These two backgrounds are today the core of her practice.
Anne Mette Larsen is a weaver. The loom is a universal apparatus that has its own logic, grid structure and set of dogmatic rules. Seen as one of the most influential textile artists of her generation in Denmark, Larsen has refined and re-defined the simplest weaving method “tabby” - also called canvas, where up to 3 layers of thin hand-dyed paper and silk yarn are woven. The yarn intertwines, swaps places and Larsen´s formal grid compositions are abstractions of a classic twist pattern as you find in everyday tablecloths. With her sublime sensitivity towards colour and composition, Larsen creates her works intuitively and process-orientated. Therefore she is often refered to as the “painter of the loom”.
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