KA Almgren Sidenväveri (silk weaving) and museum devoted its autumn to Maria Löw, who is internationally known for her textile design, which builds a bridge between everyday functioning and available luxury, writes Bradley Quinn in his introduction to the exhibition catalog. Maria Löw has a visual clarity that leaves a strong impression. Transparency, layers, subtle color changes like watercolors but also dramatic encounters with strong graphic character is her hallmark.
The silk weaving mill has in historical times collaborated with a number of female textile designers in 1900 and beyond. We may here mention Anna Boberg, Mary Widebäck, Karin Wästberg, Maja Sjöström, Thyra Grafstrom and Elsa Gullberg. Therefore it is natural and almost challengingly to showcase Maria Löw’s modern life feeling and what today's Swedish textile design capable of expressing, says Almgren’s.
The exhibition opens October 21, 2011 and will run until November 28
