The simplicity and physicality invites the spectator to go explore – but preferably quietly. In Anne Tholstrup, one senses great sensitivity and a desire not to speak too much about her paintings. In stead, they are intended as fields of opportunity and as frames for a dreamy search within one self, where, for a moment, the idea of the simple life is allowed to flourish.

Art historian Line Kjær Nielsen

In all of Anne Tholstrup's latest paintings, the traditional motives of the Hopi Indians are revived as simple, vibrating color surfaces in lengthy progressions. Simple, sensitive lines create, despite the absence of any figuration, the illusion of the paintings as stylized picture stories similar to comics. As in her former works, Anne Tholstrup succeeds in giving the color schemes of the original people new life while recreating their bearing myths in the now, making them, at the same time, both current and time-transcending.

And like her pictures, the life of Anne Tholstrup transcends time. Sensing, dreaming and working in her atelier in the house on the hills in Mallorca. And at the same time in the now, with a characteristic presence and fulness – in the city, at the galleries, in the art.

Art historian Birgitte Rodh

One recognizes the animation from ones own every day life … Often, we appreciate the little things with a completely irrational glow, not necessarily because they remind us of someone or something, but simply because they are there, a part of the life we call our own. In this way, they are able to carry heavy thoughts and ideas without loosing their own lightness, their own thoughtless presence. This may be the particular, quiet strength of the latest works by Anne Tholstrup. What is simple is not necessarily banal.

Museum inspector Flemming Friborg