Anne-Marie Nordin | New works in the Inner Room of the Gallery

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is pleased to announce Anne-Marie Nordin’s (b.1955) third exhibition in the gallery. New sculptures and drawings are presented in the inner room of the gallery.

Anne-Marie Nordin is working with living models in her studio. Studies of people who come for regular sessions. It is an ongoing process and some of the models have been around for many years. It is a method that rests on a heavy tradition but still today is highly unusual. The sculptures slowly find their final expression after lots of retakes and layers of colored wax. Her works have recently an increasingly painterly expression – where she works with both transparent and opaque layers – although the form is always in focus. In the exhibition she also shows model drawings which are important for the work process.

Anna Brodow Inziana wrote about her last exhibition (2009) in the swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet:

“What is fascinating about Anne-Marie Nordin’s portrait busts is the head shape and the neck flexion. Probably it is no idealized profile of classical portraits. I would think that she has been looking up models that has that certain look. It later struck me that the cashier in the call shop, a young dark woman, might have been Matilda. Details of the clothes and the painterly technique with gradations in the surface releases them from art traditions and they come out into the real world. It was also the way Rodin worked.”