NYAB Event - Eva Hild "Dark Matter"

Eva Hild "Dark Matter"

Nancy Margolis Gallery

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Hild, one of Sweden’s most talented artists has had a meteoric career. Since her first exhibition at Nancy Margolis Gallery in 2005, Hild’s work has become increasingly sought after, and has received attention and acclaim from collectors and museums in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Hild constructs complex sculptures made of stoneware clay, fired and coated with white silicate in a process that takes four to six months to complete. These sculptures, delicate and ethereal are hand constructed with clay coils followed by a painstaking sanding process. In the last year Hild expanded her work with a darker clay body. These deep dark sculptures, still with thin walls and equally forceful, elicit their own distinct aura.
Each of Hild’s sculptures engages with the space around it in a dynamic relationship that allows the work to be both compressed and supported by the surrounding space. Each sculpture not only brings attention to its own form but also the air and emptiness around it. The form comprises of both internal and external surfaces as one line continuously runs throughout and emphasizes the tension between presence and absence, space and mass, light and shade, and construction and destruction. Challenging herself further, Hild is currently working on large-scale outdoor sculptures cast in aluminum and stainless steel. The commissioned sculptures are installed in South Korea, and a number of locations in Sweden.