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The National Gallery of Denmark 2015

• Curated group show

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Tapestry Wall for The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK).

SMK invited a group of artists to make an interpretation of a chosen artwork from the National gallery permanent collections, including Signe Emdal.

Taking the painting Rose sets the Table (1914) by Astrid Holm (1876-1937) as her point of inspiration, Signe Emdal created a tapestry, where the roses and vibrant colours from Holm’s painting: red, yellow and pink was woven into the structure of the textile. The flower explosion in the tapestry was a way of expressing the theme of emancipation presented in the painting, which is also core to Astrid Holm’s own biography. As a female painter and tapestry weaver, Astrid Holm fought for female artists’ rights and for the recognition in Denmark of tapestry weaving as an art form. 

”I want Astrid’s Rose to bloom. I want her to hold her head up high, look ahead and unfold in all her gentleness and strength, shining. Long enough, she has been standing in the shadow of her male modernist colleagues. This brave and powerful cosmopolitan paintres.” 

-Signe Emdal

© Image rights: Jakob Emdal & Signe Emdal