KENT KARLSSON

location: Sobacken avfallshantering, Boras, Sweden
medium: concrete
year: 1993

title: Ohka-Baka
location: Hogskolan i Skovde, industriell teknik, Skovde, Sweden
medium: aluminum plate, sheet materials, foams
size: 400 x 450 cm.
year: 1991

"Ohka-Baka" shines like a dragonfly in the sun. It swings slowly over the robots and equipment cabinets. In the art room are something that is neither a real aircraft or a real model, but a tenuous middle ground, a work of art. Kent Karlsson, who might as well use corrugated sheet metal, canvas, has chosen to polystyrene and masonite to the frame, on which he glued the shiny turquoise aluminum plate. Lightweight, easy to fly the plane, like the dream of the large model airplane in the boys room. Dream and reality. Aircraft travel in dreams, but also in the real war. "Baka" means idiot. "Ohka" is the Japanese word for cherry blossom. In operation, Ohka, the Japanese fighter are toss down their bombers like falling cherry blossom against enemy.

Text av Ann-Sofi Noring, National Arts Council Yearbook 22

title: Here - Now
location: Samhallsvetenskapliga institutionen, Haga, Goteborg, Sweden
medium: Mobile relief in enamelled steel and mirror glass
size: 300 x 600 cm.
year: 1994
together with: Erik Langert
photographer: Jäger Arén

"Fire wall is opposed to the north, is therefore mostly in the shade. Portrayal of this wall consists of a world map of enameled steel washers, which are suspended so that they are moving in the wind, billowed in the wind gusts. In addition, there are mirrors that create cats thrown on the map that moves with the sun once, when the sun is pleasing to prove at this location. Solkar Terna are shaped by words Here and Now."

By Ann-Sofi Noring the National Arts Council Yearbook nr. 26

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