So, this is the second one of KonstFunk exhibitions x 2: eighteen woven tapestries by Adrian Nehard (currently on display at Södertälje City Hall). His body of work relates to The Songs of Maldoror (written by the self-appointed comte/count Lautréamont and originally published in 1868); reviving their poetic imagery in contemporary colours and textures, by the use of rags, pearls, paint, and embroidery.
“Songs of Maldoror” tapestries by Adrian Nehard
at Södertälje City Hall, March 2020;
photos by Christofer Martinson
The exhibition is curated – mainly by my colleague Eva-Karin Planman – to form an open labyrinth, hovering around a flowform water sculpture by Nigel Wells. On Friday March 13th, Adrian Nehard met practising alchymist and artist Lisa Jeannin in an ad-lib Artist Talk.
Lisa Jeannin with Tarot card in front of tapestries;
photo Christofer Martinson
The audience followed closely, as Adrian and Lisa walked and talked their way along an evolving path of strange and complex representations. For a full hour, we were carried away by Adrian’s set of flying carpets – ending up in a French-Swedish reading of a passage from the Songs of Maldoror.
Lisa Jeannin and Adrian Nehard performing their Artist Talk;
photos by HHW.
Thank you, Lisa, for joining! Thank you, Adrian, for sharing your outstanding work!
Lisa Jeannin, Helena Hildur W, Eva-Karin Planman;
photo by Christofer Martinson
