October 2023
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Wolf dance
Date: Saturday, November 11
Time: at 15.15-15.45
Location: Hall East
Dance performance with students from Fryshuset's high school class. Choreographer: Teresia Vigil Lundahl
Works from 1965 to 2023
What is happening in the world? And how does it relate to us humans? These are questions that run like a red thread through Cilla Ericson's artistic work. In her solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, she shows works that relate to nature and life.
What drives Cilla Ericson's artistry is the aha experience of seeing and depicting one's immediate surroundings. In the exhibition Retro Active Ericson starts from themes that all take their starting point in nowTogether they tell a story about the world and us humans.
Ericson has been interested in the life of oaks for several years. In several different Stump portrait, which started with The TV-eak 2011, she shows her research into how cold and increasingly warm winters create patterns in the annual rings of trees. In Night paintings, starting in the 1990s, she painted the view of Blackeberg night after night during the phases of the moon. After the tsunami in 2005, she finished the series.
Starting in the 1980s, Ericson has also painted fruits, vegetables and cross-sections of them out of fascination with the brain's ability to find context.
In 1986, Ericson exhibited Leaf songs at the Mälargalleriet. It consists of a series of paintings of leaves and trees together with poems. In response to the Chernobyl disaster that same year, Ericson and a few artists, including Peter Tucker who coordinated the whole thing, performed a multimedia experiment. Slides were projected onto veils with live music by Tomas Mera Gartz and Anita Livstrand, together with recorded nature sounds and poems during the performances at Kilen in Kulturhuset, Stockholm. Cilla Ericson emphasizes that: “The present is the wonder”. In the fall of 2023, Gidlunds förlag will publish Leaf songs with Ericson's pictures and poems.
At the beginning of his artistic career, Ericson worked primarily in pencil and graphite. Our Father, in 1969 she and Hanns Karlewski drew together. The work depicts twelve representations of the world's injustices in relation to Christian prayer. Ericson's work always has a sharpness. When she exhibited Black pictures separately at the Kollektivgalleriet in Stockholm in 1973, her works were subjected to damage in frustration over what these images showed.
Klarälven. Landscape in three acts 1975-1977, five large drawings in pencil, Ericson prepared as a traveling exhibition for Riksutställningarna distributed by Älvräddarna.
The room "Roots, Myths, Memories" was compiled by Cilla Ericson together with Kerstin Abram-Nilsson for the exhibition We work for life, at Liljevalchs konsthall in 1980. The iron sculpture was shown here Spirals and small sculptures of loving couples, birthing goddesses and women.
The largest painting in the exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts is Tower of Babel, 1979. It is a painting by Hofbrigaden (Ulf Rahmberg, Stefan Teleman, Cilla Ericson, Julie Leonardsson and Ingrid Olsson). It was created in a happening when Hofbrigaden painted over their previous painting The Emperor's New Clothes. Tower of Babel was a reaction to Stockholms Lokaltrafik's decision not to put up Moderna Museet's poster for the exhibition "Brigadmåleri 1978. After 40 years at Luleå University of Technology, the painting is now returning to Stockholm.
With keen observation, Cilla Ericson shows us the worlds we live in. Through her images, we are reminded of who we are and what we do. Her stories are as relevant today as when they were first told.
