Pernelle Fagerlund at Zona Tortona 2008

(05.03.2008)

Danish Crafts is presenting, Pernelle Fagerlund, one of twelve exhibiting artist at MINDCRAFT in Milan.

 

Textile Stone (2008): hand felted, 100% pure new wool. Photo:jeppegudmundsen.com

Fagerlund graduated from Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen in 2003. She studied painting and sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in the early 1990s. The sculptural approach is clearly discernible in her work, which often gives the impression of being textile furniture. She transcends the traditional boundaries relegating textiles to a secondary role in furniture-design. Instead she seeks to meld the two concepts in a synthesis providing a surprising and untraditional take on an entirely new kind of furniture. One example of this artistic working technique is to be founding her work Textile Dictatorship from 2003, an untraditional element of rest produced from fulled wool, felt and insulating tubing - inspired by marine life: sea anemones, corals and plants. Due to its originality, this work has been exhibited in numerous places in Denmark and abroad - most recently in Berlin in 2006. Pernelle Fagerlund's untraditional working method, which challenges traditional boundaries between textile and furniture have given rise to a great deal of press coverage in Danish and international lifestyle- and fashion magazines.

"I design three-dimensional textiles, which convey evocative and energy renewing sensations, stimulating the body in relaxation ‘situations'. Textiles are almost always inferior to the form; in my three-dimensional work, the textiles play the main part both as furniture and as textile. The third dimension is used to express the humorous, the vigorous, the playful - this type of furniture should appeal to pause and at the same time be a visual experience. I want to draw the expression towards something sculptural, sumptuous, unpretentious, funny, curious and voluminous."

Pernelle Fagerlund, textile designer