Eva Löfdahl’s exhibition in Florence
Four years after the last exhibition in the VEDA spaces in Florence, the Swedish artist Eva Löfdahl returns to exhibit her work by inaugurating the new headquarters of the gallery with an ad hoc project entitled “New and vestigial traits”
The exhibition of Eva Löfdahl (Göteborg, 1953) in the VEDA environments in Florence from a reflection linked to the sense of time and the events that are generated and follow each other within it, an immanent time that exists as a surface.
From these suggestions arises a group of heterogeneous works that well summarize the media panorama from which the artist draws by merging with the influences pertaining to multiple fields of interest such as biology oh the technologyup to politic and to sociology.
Almost with a sort of taxonomic classification, the works on display are analyzed and associated by macro groups / categories and then individually their morphological autonomy.
EVA LÖFDAHL EXHIBITION IN FLORENCE
A dominate is The lasting tail, sculptural group that speaks of empty / full, internal / external, consisting of three series of amphorae (or exoskeletons) arranged on the floor, which differ from each other in shape, size and color. A counterpoint to this work is, on the wall, a rectangular panel with the appearance of a monochrome, made of reflective fabric that reflects or dazzles the viewer. On the corner wall, however, slender but sturdy sculptures, The scaffolding of the mind, they recall the shape of the exoskeleton, made with wooden sticks held together by an experimental “mortar”, based on clay, earth and sand, now recurrent in the artist’s production. The exhibition ends and ends with three small photos and a wall installation, The Earth as we know itmade in 2018 with black brush bristles that mark the space by altering its perceptual coordinates.
– Gino Pisapia