As if splashed onto the wall with a monumental brush, Anne von Freyburg’s installations visualize material and fiber as gestural splotches of paint. Colours bleed into each other and drips prolong to the ground in what the London-based Dutch artist describes as “textile paintings.”
Drawing on Seventeenth and 18th-century European portray traditions just like the nonetheless lifes of the Dutch Golden Age and the stylized exuberance of Rococo, von Freyburg reframes relationships between craft and superb artwork.
References to Rococo artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher play prominently in von Freyburg’s solo exhibition, Filthy Cute, at Saatchi Gallery. Tapping into “the clichés of heterosexual romance and societal expectations of women…she explores the pressures women face, particularly the expectations of being ‘caretakers’ and ‘pleasers,’” says an announcement. Von Freyburg turns her consideration to themes of compassion, freedom, and girls as sovereign people.
Filthy Cute celebrates sensuality and the female whereas highlighting sudden associations between supplies. The artist’s summary compositions typically reference florals which can be blurred, dripping, and verging on full abstraction. Shiny materials in a variety of colours swirl with out totally mixing, leading to sensual shapes which can be beguiling and unusual.
Von Freyburg describes one undergirding theme as “commodity fetishism,” tapping into the Seventeenth-century style for Dutch floral nonetheless lifes and the notorious financial hypothesis bubble that characterised Tulip Mania between 1634 and 1637.
The present continues via Might 11 in London, working concurrently Flowers: Flora in Up to date Artwork and Tradition, which additionally contains work by von Freyburg. Discover extra on the artist’s web site and Instagram.
