New exhibit at the Alida Ivanov Gallery in Stockholm: Mikael Ellingsen, "The Invisible Thread," Feb. 6- Mar. 14, 2010
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Mikael Ellingsen
Mikael Ellingsen, "The Invisible Thread," Feb 6- Mar 14 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
5:00pm - 8:00pm
Tomtebogatan 18
Stockholm, Sweden
Alida Ivanov Gallery warmly welcomes you to the exhibition "The Invisible Thread," Mikael Ellingsen's first with the gallery.
The exihibition consists of a series of collages and an installation which further continues where the collages end. Everything is there to create a strange, but interwoven world.
The thought of an invisible thread which leads Mikael Ellingsen in his work process has been a starting point for the pieces being shown. He has with the help of this thought stepped into the realm of chance, in both the work with the collages and the installation.
The collages, for Ellingsen, immitate life, fragmental and not following any dramaturgical rules; they act like a meeting point for memories, dreams, beauty, thoughts, images, the present, and chance. Mikael Ellingsen made the collages with the help of his cousin, the illustrator and graphical designer, Henrik Andersson; a collaboration that has been continuing for a long period of time.
The installation follows the same path as the collages; another piece of the puzzle in which existence hides in itself. By following the "invisible thread" and taking ideas and images from the blurred and undefined source from which they came from, Ellingsen lets the pieces form an entity.
"Collaboration as a tool, technique. Chance as a tool, technique", according to the artist himself.
Mikael Ellingsen graduated from Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg 2009.
Check out an interview with Alida Ivanov at Luciole Press ~ Alida Ivanov Gallery @ Luciole Press
Alida Ivanov Gallery warmly welcomes you to the exhibition "The Invisible Thread," Mikael Ellingsen's first with the gallery.
The exihibition consists of a series of collages and an installation which further continues where the collages end. Everything is there to create a strange, but interwoven world.
The thought of an invisible thread which leads Mikael Ellingsen in his work process has been a starting point for the pieces being shown. He has with the help of this thought stepped into the realm of chance, in both the work with the collages and the installation.
The collages, for Ellingsen, immitate life, fragmental and not following any dramaturgical rules; they act like a meeting point for memories, dreams, beauty, thoughts, images, the present, and chance. Mikael Ellingsen made the collages with the help of his cousin, the illustrator and graphical designer, Henrik Andersson; a collaboration that has been continuing for a long period of time.
The installation follows the same path as the collages; another piece of the puzzle in which existence hides in itself. By following the "invisible thread" and taking ideas and images from the blurred and undefined source from which they came from, Ellingsen lets the pieces form an entity.
"Collaboration as a tool, technique. Chance as a tool, technique", according to the artist himself.
Mikael Ellingsen graduated from Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg 2009.
Check out an interview with Alida Ivanov at Luciole Press ~ Alida Ivanov Gallery @ Luciole Press
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