KARI DYRDAL

plain weave – rewoven

11 January - 3 March 2024

Definition of plain weave:
The warp and weft threads cross at right angles; canvas; one of three basic types of weaving.
The simplest form of weaving –
The first weft thread passes over and under the warp threads.
The next weft thread passes under and over, in the alternate order.
 
Definition of plain:
Adjective; simple, clear, precise, unambiguous, little or nothing in addition, undecorated

Everything has a beginning.
Kari Dyrdal has gone back to the beginning; to the simple surface, to the divisions, structures, materials and colours. In the exhibition she explores the signs that are formed in a woven surface. Her starting points are some of her early sources of inspiration: woven fabrics, the rich surfaces of Anni Albers and the breathing textiles of the Yoruba People. Dyrdal has wanted to reweave them, and tried to reweave them.
 
Kari Dyrdal (b. 1952) studied at Bergen College of Arts and Crafts and Croydon College of Art & Technology in London. She recently exhibited with other leading Norwegian ceramic and textile women artist at Cromwell Place in London and at the exhibition Odd and Even – A collection in Maison Louis Carré in France, both exhibitions arranged by Taste Contemporary. Dyrdal’s solo exhibitions include Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Hå Gamle Prestegaard and Almdahls Sidenveveri Stockholm, among others. Her works have been purchased by the National Museum in Oslo, KODE in Bergen, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, the Museum of Fine Art Boston and the Museum of Fine Art Riga. Dyrdal has won several prizes and produced many works of public art.