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July: Tobias Madison, Ida Ekblad, http://www.karmainternational.org/future.html
August: MOMENTUM 2009 - 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, FAVORED NATIONS
September: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Nyc, http://www.gavinbrown.biz/ & The Journal Gallery, Nyc, http://www.thejrnl.com/
WHAT LEAF ? WHAT MUSHROOM ?
June 9, 6 pm
New Jerseyy, Basel
http://www.newjerseyy.ch/
MAY 25
IN EXILE FROM THE MINERAL KINGDOM
Galleria Alesandro De March, Milan
http://www.alessandrodemarch.it/
In Exile From The Mineral Kingdom
Exhibition View
Fence (Museum)
Welded found iron
2009
Pipe Composition
oil on Canvas
2009
Tangled up in chains
Welded found iron
Stalk, Gills and Caps of Goodbye
Oil on Canvas
Catalogue by Mousse Publishing
http://www.moussemagazine.it/
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
MAY 22 -Annen Etage, Oslo
http://gallriannenetage.blogspot.com/
A Woman Under the Influence
“The low wall that encloses a field or an orchard cannot prevent one’s entering it: it forbids one to enter.”
Saint Genet, Jean Paul Sartre (1963)
We are sorrounded by utensils which have been manufactured by and for any man.
The industrial products that make up the urban landscape are the social will bottled
and canned; they speak to us of our integration in society; men address us through the
silence of these products; they are injunctions, recommendations, sometimes
questionings or explainations; a new tool is the reverse of a new gesture. The gesture
is described in a leaflet of instructions that we are given with the tool; when
we perform it for the first time, we are engaging in a ceremony: the just man who uses
a new corkscrew or the latest type of can opener plunges into the fine heart
of society, perceives, through the object, the manufacturer, the merchant, the jurist,
who advise, suggest, command delightfully. It is out of love of man that man buy
gadgets, for the pleasure of hearing the seremonizing voice of the specialist ring out
in the solitude of their apartments, of their lives; tools veil from us our forlornness.
Tools have nothing to command or forbid the disintegrated, vagabond element,
the wandering individual who is Ida Ekblad.
DEAR SOCIETY
YOU´VE HAD TOO MUCH INFLUENCE ON MY LIFE
GOODBYE
Installation view
Ti ville hester kan'ke få meg til å bli
Oil on linen
2009
Towards the Infinite Steel Prophet
Welded found metal
2009
Video still
In Exile from The Mineral Kingdom
1:36 min
2009
I Came Across A Skyline At The Trashyard
Welded found metal, wooden plinth
160 x 20 x 25 cm
2009
Ta meg med
Oil on linen
2009
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Installation View: Febermalerier, Galerie Gaudel De Stampa, 2009
Installation View: Febermalerier, Galerie Gaudel De Stampa, 2009
UNTITLED (M) - Stolen Mc Donald's Sign, ink and bleach on paper - 2009
ODEON SKY UNCANNY - Oil on Linen - 2009
PAST
DARK FAIR presented by Milwaukee International
Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne
April 23 - 26
http://www.koelnischerkunstverein.de/pdf/darkFairEng.pdf
HUBERT MÖCHERSCHOFF
• Raw Side • Outta Control • Chez Hubert • Don't mind The Hosen •
Installation View: "O' Radical Modern Way of Life", Galleri Annen Etage, 2009
O' RADICAL MODERN WAY OF LIFE
I. Ekblad
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Wee bank account lookin` awffy thin
A bag o` bones covered in skin?
Don't fret!
we offer quality and charm
with undiminshed interest in your burglar alarm
sleek fluid curves
bring these modern classics into your home.
Crimson Rouge
King's Blue hue
A blush of gloss
burnt umber glaze recalling good ol' days
Straight from the scrap-yard
Who needs a Gold Card?
elegant, delicate, dandified, neat
clack clack crack
off the beaten track
knickknack, bric-a-brac, neglected metal sheet
-A Radical Punch, brewed on a wee lil' Credit Crunch.
left: SHAM KING, KING OF SHAM middle: CHARLATAN right: BRING THIS MODERN CLASSIC INTO YOUR HOME
Welded found metal, 2009
Purple Dust and Turquoise Nettle, Watercolor on Found Object, 2009
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Ida Ekblad • email • ida at computerprincess dot com