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Kristine Fornes

Kristine Fornes opens a solo show at Gallery Format in Bergen.

Line Ulekleiv has written about her work Spring in sight in a catalogue that is available at Kristine Fornes’ website (http://www.kristinefornes.no/assets/Kristine%20Fornes%20Katalog.pdf):

In Kristine Fornes’ work Spring in Sight, two colorful budgerigars are each sitting on a branch decorated with flowers, and it is as if one can hear the birds chirping from the embroidered fabric. The details of this very lifelike picture are intimately executed; the birds’ feathers are a vibrant yellow and variations in yellow and blue. The ornithological study in small stitches is broken by a sketch-like male figure with a mustache and whose arms are raised into the air. Is he adjusting his glasses or simply covering his ears? He is situated directly under the two branches, and the embroidered contours of this frail and caricatured man changes the picture’s almost rococo-like representation into a cartoon-like slapstick .

Kristine Fornes: Pine, pine, spruce and spruce, hand-embroidery on canvas, 167 cm x 53 cm (detail). Photo: Jørn G. Lang

Kristine Fornes: Pine, pine, spruce and spruce, hand-embroidery on canvas, 167 cm x 53 cm. Photo: Jørn G. Lang

Kristine Fornes: Pine, pine, spruce and spruce, hand-embroidery on canvas, 167 cm x 53 cm (detail). Photo: Jørn G. Lang

Kristine Fornes: Husklynge 1 (House cluster), hand-embroidery on canvas, 80 × 50 cm.

Kristine Fornes: Husklynge 2 (House cluster), hand-embroidery on canvas, 80 × 50 cm.

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