{"id":5875,"date":"2024-11-21T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=event&p=5875"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T12:18:12","slug":"book-launch-synnove-anker-aurdal-through-the-threads","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/events\/book-launch-synnove-anker-aurdal-through-the-threads\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch | Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal – Through the Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Book Launch | Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal – Through the Threads<\/h1>\n\n4 Dec, 18:00 \u2014 19:30<\/span>\n\n
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Welcome to the book launch of Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal – Through the Threads The event is free and open for all but requieres sign up. Limited capacity. Refreshments. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Lecture by renowned curator and art scholar Lynne Cooke, panel discussion with Cooke, Lars Bang Larsen, and Marit Paasche. Introduction by Solveig \u00d8vsteb\u00f8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI could not have become an artist in any other way than through the threads.\u201d
\u2013 Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By combining traditional craft techniques and the language of painterly abstraction, Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal<\/strong> (1908-2000) reinvented tapestry-making and created a new space for modern textile art. Her works took on a singular and effervescent character by featuring materials such as copper thread, polyester, fiberglass, nylon, metal chains and \u2013 most controversially \u2013 synthetic dyes. Despite a thriving career and frequent media presence in Norway, the fact that Anker Aurdal was a woman with no academic artistic education, working in feminized artistic media, shaped her trajectory and the reception of her work. As the most comprehensive monograph on Anker Aurdal\u2019s work to date, Through the Threads<\/em> writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this pioneering artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book compiles newly commissioned texts by Lars Bang Larsen, Marit Paasche, Jenni Sorkin, Leire Vergara, and an interview by Solveig \u00d8vsteb\u00f8 with Siri Aurdal, Anker Aurdal\u2019s daughter. Included as a book-within-the-book is Poems to Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal<\/em>, a collection of newly commissioned poems originally published for the exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet. The book is richly illustrated with images from the exhibition and archive photos of Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal. All texts are in English and Norwegian. Through the Threads<\/em> is a printed sequel to the retrospective exhibition Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal<\/em>, held at Astrup Fearnley Museet in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synn\u00f8ve Anker Aurdal
Through the Threads
<\/em>With<\/strong> Lars Bang Larsen, Marit Paasche, Jenni Sorkin, Leire Vergara, Solveig \u00d8vsteb\u00f8
Editors <\/strong>Lars Bang Larsen, Solveig \u00d8vsteb\u00f8
Design<\/strong> Johannes Barlaup Jellum, Sandra Stokka
Published by <\/strong>Astrup Fearnley Museet og Mousse Publishing, 2024
Price:<\/strong> 690,-<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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