Ida Ekblad's paintings often have a lightness of touch, love of saturated colour and rhythm, and a celebratory mood involving rapid improvisation, layering, and pattern. She is influenced by many artists, particularly Henri Matisse and the CoBrA group, but she has her own distinctive, exuberant style.
Read MoreIn her works, abstraction boldly rubs shoulders with figuration with a flat picture-plane dominating, so that the four edges of the stretched canvas are emphasised, like the canvas surface. Often different types of unusual paint, like puff paint or plastisol, are incorporated. Sometimes she also incorporates written language.
Related Ekblad paintings include Platoon (2019), Her Motor Centre (2020), The Moon Still Hangs Pale Over the Water (2019), A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly (2019), and The Girls Will Bring You Nightmares (2020).
Sometimes her paintings have long meandering bits of fragmented poetic sentences for titles, like: Hitherto unexposed in the darkest part of some old ossuary, jardiniere, urn, krater, vessel, jar or pot, mouth blown in the fragile metropolis of Venice, in the 80's (2017); or Let me not forget to record, do not to disturb if death should happen in the night. Not to let me know it until I arise at my usual time (2017).
Her freestanding sculptures include Sportswear (2019), Tortoise with a Sail (2019), Bent on Consuming Mankind (2019), Step Motherfucker (2017), and Vampire Squid (2015).
Ekblad's performances are highly energetic as seen in her videos, In Exile From the Mineral Kingdom (2009), where she is raiding a scrap-metal yard for sculpture materials, or Digging Treasure (2010) with Nils Bech, where they make music using voice and improvisational percussion.
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