KENT KARLSSON

title: The mirage
location: in a mire along the route 92 between
Vännäs and Bjurholm, Sweden
medium: mirror glass, sheet material
size: height 8 meter
year: 1998
project: Konstvägen sju älvar



The Mirage Video
Religion & livsåskådning
SVT Umeå, 1998
lenght: 4 minutes
producent: Per Melander

title: Moonstone and drop
location: Umeå Universitet, Medicinska biblioteket, Sweden
medium: granite, water plant, chains
size: granite 330 x 130 x 30 cm., chains 30 m.
year: 2002


"In this article I talk about the artwork "moonstone and drop" by Kent Karlsson. It is located in the medical library, and there has been a single room. The artwork consists of a stone in granite and a chain hanging from the ceiling. The stone weighs approximately 2 tons and measuring 3.30 x 1.30 x 0.30 meters and has a crescent carved in the widest part. A closed water system belongs to the artwork and also with the help of this you get one drop of water falling from the chain into the half moon on the rock about every second. The artwork is located in the middle of a fairly large room and the most immediate effect is that the work gives the drop to the stone. Despite the drop occupies an almost non-existent volume in the room is the still the biggest event, every second."

title: For Kids
location: Bankeryds skola, Sweden
medium: expanded metal, painting
size: about 700 x 120 cm
year: 2002

title: A blue line and a yellow hair from Princess Tuvstarr
location: Internationella Handelshogskolan, Jonkoping, Sweden
medium: neon tube design
year: 1997

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

Read the full article "Here - Now" by Ann-Sofi Noring

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.

By Ann-Sofi Noring, National Arts Council Yearbook 22

ttitle: Elevator shaft
location: Vagnhallen Garda, Goteborgs sparvagar, Goteborg, Sweden
medium: fresco
year: 1984