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Elevator
© Cecilia Edefalk
Elevator
Elevator
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Elevator

by Cecilia Edefalk
Artist (Sverige, född 1954)
Date1998
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 40 × 32 × 2 cm
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Credit LineInköp 2001
Object NumberMOM/2001/2:1
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork Cecilia Edefalk made her debut as a painter in the 1980s, when painting was declared dead and many artists were migrating to other media. Edefalk was early to adopt repetition as an artistic approach, painting the same image in different formats and in a variety of styles. Her work on the Elevator series began with a spiritual experience she had at a museum in Tuscany, where she suddenly saw an angel pointing at her. This was a 15th-century wood sculpture of the archangel Gabriel at the Annunciation, the moment when the Virgin Mary is told that she will give birth to the son of God. Somehow, a picture of the sculpture made its way back to Sweden. After a few years, this photograph inspired Elevator. Selected exhibition history Den tredje handen. Maurizio Cattelan och Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2024 - den 12 januari 2025) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Cecilia Edefalk (1999) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Cecilia Edefalk : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [7/8 - 19/9 1999] Bibliography Cecilia Edefalk; Cecilia Edefalk. Kunsthalle Bern. Moderna Museet Stockholm. Fotografer och författare. Bern 1999. ill.s 64