Excerpt from the catalogue preface by Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen and Charlotte Sabroe:

Willy Ørskov (1920-90) was one of the great pioneers within Danish art. He mainly focused on sculpture, and during the first years of his career he used bronze, aluminium, iron, plastic and marble in his work. In 1967 he developed a new, radical type of work to which Sorø Kunstmuseum now dedicates an entire exhibition.

Flexions is the overall title of these sculptures. They were created during the perios 1967 to 1985 on the island of Bogø, but are as startling and innovative today as they were then. Ørskov was inspired by the family’s blue air mattress. He found the right material for his new type of sculpture in the form of beige fabric (nylon lined in rubber) originally created for lifejackets for Swedish troops. The fabric was cut and shaped to form long tubes that were sealed at either end and fitted with black valves. He wanted no bases. The sculpture should not be carried aloft by anything other than itself. Instead he placed a lead disc in the bottom of the sculpture in order to anchor it to the ground. The disc is inside the sculpture, hidden form sight, so to observers it looks as if Ørskov is defying gravity.

The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue in Danish and English with texts by Grethe Grathwol, Camilla Jalving and Pernille Albrethsen.