VERA MYHRECOLLAGE23.06- 12.07.1972

Document 1

galerie s:t petri
s:t petri kyrkogata 5
lund
046 / 14 78 00

VERA MYHRE – 1920 Copenhagen, Denmark
23 June – 12 July 1972

"It is the material I care for. It is what creates the image. In this exhibition I show collages, composed of letters and images from magazines, railway plans, and fashion photographs.
The sensation of these prosaic elements and the inspiration from the subject is the same. The experience comes from everyday life and seeks its meaning in common materials. The form is in itself the thought. It stems from the raw material, whatever expressiveness there may be in the image."

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Document 2

galerie s:t petri
s:t petri kyrkogata 5
lund
046 / 14 78 00

The Danish graphic artist VERA MYHRE concludes Galerie S:t Petri’s spring exhibitions with seven large collages and seven lithographs.
Vera Myhre attracted attention already at her debut in 1947. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, both Professor Vilhelm Lundstrøm and Professor Aksel Jørgensen were of great importance to her.

She has worked as a painter, but from the beginning it has been graphic problems that have mainly occupied her. The possibilities of woodcutting for working with elementary graphic effects gave nourishment to her imagination.

She regards herself fundamentally as a lithographer. For some years now, however, she has also worked with collages, which have received much attention, even though they originally arose only as by-products to help her see the finished lithograph.

In a contemporary visual language, Vera Myhre has sought to interpret her experiences of everyday life as it takes shape: where people move about, in the station waiting hall, at pedestrian crossings, on a bench reading a newspaper, etc.

She has held numerous exhibitions over the years, among others at the Riverside Museum in New York, Cottingham Gardens in London, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum in Linz, Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, as well as, of course, in various places in Scandinavia.

The exhibition in Lund runs from 23 June – 12 July.

Press viewing will take place on Thursday, 22 June 1972 at 14:00.