IDA EKBLAD • EIRIK SAETHER • ANDERS NORDBY • ARILD TVEITO
O´ Radical Modern Way of Life
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A bag o` bones covered in skin?
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bring these modern classics into your home.
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King's Blue hue
A blush of gloss
burnt umber glaze recalling good ol' days
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IDA EKBLAD
- In the eyes of rajahs, the pearlfisher did not differ much from the pig that noses out truffles; the labor of the lacemaker never made of lace a human product; on the contrary, lace made a laceworm of the lacemaker. Truffles, diamonds, pearls, lace and gold naturally elicited the human instruments that would raise them to their highest degree of splendor. In the said societies, the worker is neither a man nor an animal; his traditional techniques, the origins of which are lost in the mists of time, have become natural and sacred; an intermediary between nature and man, he effaces himself when he has brought the two together. All that remains of his work is a drop of blood to brighten the sheen of the pearl, a bit of surface fever that enables fruits and meats the better to emit their odor.
--Galleri Annen Etage
The annex at Kunstakademiet
St. Olavsgt. 32, Oslo
http://gallriannenetage.blogspot.com
