Slip, Sun dreams

by Ragna Bley

Artist Ragna Bley (Sverige, född 1986)

Date2019

MediumAcrylic paint on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 255 × 390 cm Yttermått: 255,6 × 391 × 3 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 2020 with contribution from The Carl Friberg Foundation

Countries

Sweden, Norway

Object NumberMOM/2020/19

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkThe acrylic flows like watercolour in Ragna Bley's painting that measure almost four metres in width. By using unprimed sailcloth, she gives the pigments the potential to bleed across the canvas. Bley sets the paint in motion and then monitors its expansion in the work - puddles form, shapes appear layer upon layer is added. The liquid finds its own inherent expression in the encounter with the canvas and surrounding pigments, as though it were a sentient creature. The colours and shapes alternate between artificial and organic, physical. The super-human formats mean that we can enter them with our gaze, like landscapes or unique microcosms for us to explore. Bley’s often poetic titles inform our viewing and open new associative paths.
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