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59 x 50 cm, Collection of prints
Marie-Louise Ekman frequently portrays everyday environments draped in pastel colours, while adding absurd and surreal elements to her work. She blurs lines and boundaries, drawing references from the history of art and fusing it all with the elements of pop culture. Her work depicts mundane and commonplace scenes, occasionally borrowed from middle- class environments. It transcends political, artistic and erotic taboos by means of playful naivety, which balances on absurdity. Marie-Louise Ekman is one of the first artists in Sweden to address the subject of domesticity, children and family.
Artist's Bio:
Marie-Louise Ekman (1944) is a Swedish painter and film director. She is a Professor of Art and the former rector of the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. In 1991 she was awarded the Creative Achievement Award at the 26th Guldbagge Awards and the prestigious Prince Eugen Medal in 2007. From 2009 till 2014 Ekman was the Managing Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Sweden’s national stage. She is one of the most influential artists in Sweden in the post war period and has directed over a dozen films, TV series, and plays. Ekman’s art narrates stories of current, political and taboo topics in a humorous and amusing way. She is main the subject of her own liberation project and as such is a challenging role model to cultural players today.