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Interview: Anne-Marie Nygaard Eilertsen PDF Print E-mail
Written by Anne-Marie Nygaard Eilertsen   
Friday, 01 May 2009 00:00
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 El Lobo Interior by Anne-Marie Nygaard

Eilertsen

http://www.yareah.com/images/bandera1_p.gif-Why did you decide to weave "El Ojo del Lobo" "The eye of the wolf? What is its deep meaning?

"Ojo del Lobo" was a picture I had to make during a very difficult period of my life. It is part of a series of 5 pictures with the name "El Lobo Interior". All the different parts of the picture are of course symbolic and rather personal. -Romanticism was a strong dialogue between life and death.

Do you think every person has a wild animal devouring his/her guts or, in an opposite sense, is this wild animal which gives us strength and wisdom?
 

“Ojo del Lobo”, for example, is dealing with different aspects of woman-wolf: one part letting your inner wolf devour your best qualities - due to rigid morality. The other part letting you see yourself, your life and your relations through the eyes of the true wolf - with honesty, clear sight, strength and love. This is in fact a struggle between life and death. Many words and thoughts are hidden in the picture, some of them inspired by the writer Clarissa Pincola Estees.
 

-Who is your favourite romantic artist? Any special work?

My favorite romantic artist is the Danish painter Johan Thomas Lundby. His paintings of Danish nature and landscapes have a very special kind of glow.
He was also drawing pictures of people - showing "the flow of feelings" of the romanticism. Among those one of a poor girl selling matches. The Danish tale-writer Hans Christian Andersen ( whose first teacher was in fact my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-dad) happened to see this particular drawing and wrote his tale "The little match-seller". Which of course gives me a special relation to the drawing. Sadly enough J.T. Lundby is not very known
outside Denmark.

-Which subject used to inspire you the most: life or death?
 

In the period of my life when I was concentrated on the Spanish corrida, I was stunned with the ritual of the "preset scene of death". One had to die-man or bull. And in the arena almost working together on this "project". The theme that especially inspired me was the ancient pre-Christianity-rituals of bringing life through death. But besides that life is the strongest and most interesting inspiration with all its uncountable possibilities of bliss or disaster. 

Read more:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Johan_Thomas_Lundbye

http://www.bdtonline.com/lifestyles/local_story_354164532.html 

Biography

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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954. Autodidact. I have been weaving tapestries since 1978. The themes have varied. I started off very concentrated on surrealism, which is where I am now - once again. In between I have been describing the clash between nature and culture. Later on the human body - with all its personal secrets hidden carefully. This in its own mysterious ways led to a stay in Tokyo ( sponsored by Toyota), where I had the totally unique opportunity to study sumowrestlers - even outside the ring. A series of pictures with "movement-calligraphy" (my own invention) was the result. Somehow the strict rituals in the ancient sumowrestling must
have led to my passion for the Spanish corrida - in its true, skilled form, not the tourist version! Dance of death, strong wills and colors, cojones, heredados and rituals, traceable thousands of years back. Due to very drastic circumstances in my life I am now concentrating on "El Lobo Interior", symbolic, surrealistic pictures from a not very pleasant background.

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