February Art: lessness
Sometimes less is more. It might be that in a lifetime’s work in Norway and France Anna-Eva Bergman used a variety of media, including paper, photographs, gold and silver; it might be she has been overshadowed by her partner the artist Hans Hartung; or it might be her asymmetric abstracts are uncannily suggestive of natural forms – but she should be better known, and there’s enough in a single one of her images to reward long looking.
The couple left behind extensive resources for study at the Hartman-Bergman Foundation at Antibes; as part of a real European renaissance of interest, last year she was subject of a major retrospective at La Musée d’Art Moderne of Paris, this year a new one at the National Museum Oslo; for now, though, let’s gather the shapes and colours of Gap (Fente, acrylic and metal, 1975), and just look.
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