Naja Salto (1945-2016) was a weaver, painter and scenographer educated from Kunsthåndværkerskolen in Copenhagen (now known as KADK – the Royal Academy of fine Arts, School of Design), where she studied textile 1962-66 and later Statens Teaterskole (now known as the Danish National School of Performing Arts) where she studied scenography 1972-76.
Naja Salto had over a long period of years mainly expressed herself in textile art as a tapestry weaver, however, during the later years, she spent most of her time and artistic energy on painting, as will appear from the present exhibition.
Within textile art, she has created a long series of remarkable artworks, among them “The Sea around Denmark”, tapestry in the Danish Design Museum (1986) – “Yggdrasil”, stage curtain for the National Museum’s new auditory (1989) – antependium, choir curtain and bishop’s cape for Our Lady’s Church, the Copenhagen Cathedral (1992-94) – “The light of mercy and moment”, two tapestries for Holmen’s Church (1994) and scenography for a number of Copenhagen theatres.
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.000 (ns-202)
Naja Salto: w/o title 53x81 acrylic on handmade paper - w/o frame DKK 4.000 (ns-201)
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper - framed DKK 4.600 (ns-203)
No. 3 - Naja Salto: w/o title - acrylic on handmade paper 81x53 DKK 4.600 framed
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper - w/o frame DKK 4.000 (ns-206)
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.000 w/o frame (ns-207)
No. 33 - Naja Salto: w/o title 70x60 acrylic on canvas DKK 6.500 black frame
No. 18 - Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.600 framed
No. 16 - Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.600 framed
No. 20 - Naja Salto: w/o title 30x30 oil on canvas DKK 3.000 black frame
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.000 w/o frame (ns-212)
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.000 w/o frame (ns-214)
Naja Salto: w/o title 81x53 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 4.000 w/o frame (ns-213)
No. 30 - Naja Salto: w/o title 97x130 acrylic on canvas DKK 18.000 blind frame
No. 5 - Naja Salto: Chaos 24x18 oil on canvas DKK 2.400 black frame
No. 9 - Naja Salto: w/o title 90x110 acrylic on canvas DKK 14.000 blind frame
No. 32 - Naja Salto: w/o title 52x41 acrylic on handmade paper DKK 2.800 framed
Naja SalNo. 26 - Naja Salto: Play of plants III 42x35 lito E.A. DKK 1.800 gold frameto: Play of plants III 33x23 lito E.A. DKK 1.800 framed (ns-107)
No. 6 - Naja Salto: w/o title 57x78 pastel DKK 3.800 framed
No. 7 - Naja Salto: Home sick 56x76 pastel DKK 3.800 framed
Naja Salto: Pillar saints 56x76 pastel DKK 3.800 framed (ns-112)
Naja Salto: Knots I 32x50 pastel/gouache DKK 3.500 framed (ns-120)
No. 35 - Naja Salto: Knots II 32x45 pastel/gouache DKK 3.500
No. 31 - Naja Salto: Knots III 45x32 pastel DKK 3.900 black frame
No. 11 - Naja Salto: 'Chr. Ø/Rom tur/retur' 53x65 pastel DKK 4.800 silver frame
“Naja is a weaver and painter who reaches out from reality to abstraction”, Peter Michael Hornung wrote in “Politiken” on 8 August 2006 about the exhibition “3 x Salto” with Aksel, Naja and Kasper Salto (i.e. her father and son), and adds: “…. Their works mirror related considerations about the union of geometrical and organic”….”What fascinates Salto in his glazed vases and book design, how the disorder of nature can be strengthened through the order of pattern, is a variation of the problem that occupies his daughter Naja Salto in her weavings, paintings, and gouaches: the liberation of form must have a basis in nature.”
Selected exhibitions:
1967, 1970 Gallerie Gammel Strand, Copenhagen – 1980, 1984 Galerie Inart, Copenhagen – 1983 Gallerihuset, Copenhagen – 1987 Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen (Danish Design Museum) – 1987 Herning Art Museum – 1989 Køge Sketch Collection – 1990 Esbjerg Art Pavillion – 1990 Art Musem ADK, Lund – 1994 the Danish House, Paris – 1996 Bornholm Art Museum – 225, 2007 Galleri Krebsen, Copenhagen – 2006 ‘3 x Salto’, Bornholm Art Museum
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