2.25.2011

Spacial Investigations :: Anne Lindberg

Anne Lindberg’s raume yellow at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas


" Everyone flocks to Anne Lindberg's raume yellow, even though it's nothing more than thread, staples, and o-hooks... this work shows how simple repetition of simple material is enough to send our vision trembling ecstatically. " 
       -Elizabeth Shurman, in Review, January 2011
  
Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.

In her large scale drawing and sculpture, Anne Lindberg  procures line as an element configuring real space, making it universally sensible, plausible: a drawing.  Her works are presented as fields of mark developed as a system slowly accumulating, creating an abstract matrix of perception, and provoking an emotional, visceral response. Raume yellow evidences as an eloquently charged body, physical yet ephemeral.  Repetitive release-and-stop of the thread exists in immediate reaction to the architectonic structure of  space they adhere to.  Lindberg's sensibility is simply poetic genius, and becomes the sustaining element of this work.


Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.

In her own eloquent articulation:


"As Alexander Theroux says, yellow, for all its dramatic un-alterability, is a color with thousands of meanings - light and spirit to illness and bananas.  Wallace Stevens said yellow was the “first color” while he also suggests its’ association to decay and dissolution, and an affirmation that it is the color of sun.  

I found myself recently under a brilliant blue tent eating a juicy yellow/orange peach. When I returned back to my studio, I immediately decided to build a version of my ongoing graphite line drawings in space, in yellow. It only seemed to make sense. Luminosity was connected.




Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.


"Using just a single material, Egyptian cotton thread, the other major elements in this work are staples and tension. With this taut horizontal passage of tens of thousands of lines, I am seeking a raw mysterious form that greets us as an abstraction - optical and immaterial.

Anne Lindberg, raume yellow, 2010. Egyptian cotton and staples. Installation view of Museum Interrupted at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: EG Schempf, 2010.


"raume yellow is a drawing in space and a collection of marks and shadows on the wall. I frequently return, in all of my work, to the subtle distinction between drawing as noun and verb as a long held focus in my studio practice. This blurred distinction drives my fascination with an expanded definition of drawing languages and the resurgence of drawing in contemporary art. My collective body of work is an iteration of this language - a reassertion of the age-old desire to understand self in place."

-                                                                                                                                                                                  Anne Lindberg, September 2010


        Thank you, Anne