9 Families

9 Families

Throughout Anne Vilsbøll’s more than 4 decades of artistic practice, the processing of the basic substance in her works has been based on studies and experiments with the inherent characteristics of plant materials in solid and liquid form. From her large minimalist wall installations to her numerous commissions and to paintings, she has always created her deeply personal and honest surfaces with the fibers of nature.

She has questioned what a canvas is and can be by creating this from plant papers, which creates a unique haptic quality and a receptivity to light and pigments as a dynamic living interplay of signs and surfaces. As Anne Vilsbøll puts it: The sign and the surface are mutually dependent on each other. In the spring, she received the Statens Kunstfonds’ work grant for her continued research into biomaterials both in Denmark and abroad.

In the current exhibition 9 Families, family must be seen as a concept for cohesion – a thematic study of what basic elements make up a family. Is it the composition, the color or passing visual impressions that are expressed in the memory of the experience? That which is maintained in a sketch of reality, but has changed in the process, which has given the experience a different form with a renewed reality? The studies are endless. In an attempt to create order in the chaos of diverse processing of reality, the exhibition is built on the coherence of the questions mentioned above. What we immediately observe does not tell the whole story, because this also changes in the composition of the exhibited works.

Questions are thus asked about how the concept of family can be experienced in each work, which in the exhibited 9 Family is a mirror of all the other works in the grouped families.