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Anna-Eva Bergman's monumental paintings in exhibition at the National Museum |
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OSLO.- The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway is presenting Becoming Anna-Eva Bergman, a major exhibition showcasing paintings by the Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (19091987) from the years 195075. During this period, Bergman developed a new idiom and gained international acclaim, marking a significant chapter in Norwegian art history. The exhibition held in the National Museums Light Hall brings together several of her most well-known monumental paintings as well as works that have not been exhibited since the 1950s.
Around 1950, Bergman adopted a new approach to painting and began incorporating metal leaf which would become her signature style. Her goal was to create light within the image, utilising the reflective qualities of metal leaf to respond to the slightest fluctuations in the surrounding light. Bergman developed an artistic language that conveyed the fundamental elements of painting line, form, colour and texture while also depicting recognisable forms from nature rocks, mountains, trees, celestial bodies, the sea and horizons. Sometimes she would focus closely on nature, while at other times she would turn her gaze towards outer space, with depictions of hovering celestial bodies and the Moon. In addition to the natural world, she depicted architecture incorporating houses, pyramids, burial chambers and walls.
Bergman lived and studied abroad, spending time in Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Paris and Menorca in the 1920s and 1930s. She was introduced to the international art world and got to know artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró. After spending the wartime years in Norway, Bergman left Norway and settled in France. In Paris, she became part of a vibrant art scene and participated in a series of prestigious international exhibitions. She spent the last decades of her life in Antibes in the south of France.
The exhibition at the National Museum shows 43 of Bergmans paintings, including monumental works, such as N°41957 La grande montagne (1957) and N°61960 Pyramide (1960). Several of which were presented at major exhibitions such as the Spring Exhibition (Salon de Mai) in Paris, Documenta II in Kassel in 1959, and the São Paulo Biennale in 1969, events that helped to establish Bergmans international reputation.
For the first time since 1956, all three parts of Bergmans triptych Komposisjon (Composition) from 1951 are being exhibited together. The whereabouts of this work remained unknown for many years until it came up for auction in 2013 and was purchased for the National Museums collection. The painting provides important new insights into Bergmans approach to abstraction, references to nature and her use of metal leaf.
Bergman and her artist husband Hans Hartung left behind a large archive of personal photographs. A number of these will be on display in a slide show in the exhibition.
The exhibition at the National Museum marks a renewed interest in Bergmans work. Other museums with major presentations of Bergman in recent years include the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2023) and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (2021).
Becoming Anna-Eva Bergman is a collaboration between the Hartung-Bergman Foundation in Antibes, the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the National Museum.
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