Exhibition: Pencil to Paper
Susanne Nørregård Nielsen
Glasgow International 2018 Across the City Programme
Reid Ground Floor Corridor, Glasgow School of Art
20 April – 7 May 2018

As part of the Glasgow International's 2018 Across the City programme, this exhibition featured new work by Susanne Nørregård Nielsen. This playful interdisciplinary work responded to Sophie Taeuber-Arp's (1889-1943) text 'Remarks on Instruction in Ornamental Design' (1922) to form the foundation for a series of works on paper.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the pioneers of abstract art along with Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich. Sophie Taeuber-Arp taught Textile Design at the Trade School Zurich, Department for Applied Art in the first part of her career. In this text from 1922, Sophie Taeuber-Arp showed how to develop textile designs, but at the same time gives us insight into her use of form, rhythm, line and colour in her artistic oeuvre.

As part of the exhibition Nielsen displayed two vitrines with a section of preliminary work laid out so exhibition visitors could get a greater insight through a practice led methodology of engagement with a historical artist’s text.

The total visitors for the two concurrent exhibitions as part of Glasgow International 2018 (‘Pencil to Paper’ and ‘War of the Corners’) was 4021 from 20th April – 7th May 2018. The footfall was, therefore, on average 211.6 visitors per day over the course of 19 days.

Nielsen was awarded an ARP Fellowship 2018 by Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V. Berlin, to do archive research on Sophie Taeuber-Arp textiles’ influence on early 20th century visual art and the development of the modernist textile.