In the project room, we show selected works taken from Anne Rolfsen's large production of central compositions. The drawings have been made on a specially printed paper for this purpose. They become a picture of today's mood, a place where Rolfsen can create order and balance. The fact that the drawings relate to a centre, and that it thus unfolds like a kaleidoscope, is experienced as liberating for the artist. One can relate this to classic weaving and embroidery, but primarily to the mandala. In that sense, this is both a non-academic, almost vernacular language - but which is also found in religious traditions.
For a period, Carl Gustav Jung made a daily mandala, but Anne Rolfsen is probably more inspired by female "seers" such as Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz. In that sense, you can say that time has caught up with Rolfsen - several of her references were shown at this year's Venice Biennale, and Hilma af Klint has recently had large retrospective exhibitions in both Stockholm and Berlin.
In connection with the exhibition, Rolfsen will also create a catalog of selected central compositions, with text written by art historian Mikkel Tin.
Anne Rolfsen (b. 1946), lives and works in Oslo. She is educated at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts and the Norwegian School of Handicrafts and Art Industry. She has a long series of solo and group exhibitions, she has received several grants and has been purchased by, among others, Norwegian Culture Council and Oslo municipality's art collections.
