KENT KARLSSON

title: Acting
location: Barchmanns plats, Göteborg, Sweden
medium: steel, wire
size: height 19 meters
year: 2010

title: Darkness, Growing Tomorrows
location: Bastionsplatsen, Göteborg, Sweden
medium: bronze, glass, steel
size: height 450 cm., width about 500 cm.
year: 2009
moreover: lighting in the vitreous and the rails

"Banality of evil is too horrible to be able to express in words" Hanna Arendt writes in the report for the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Is it possible to portray evil and at the same time new life in a single sculpture? According to the sketch invitation to be so, I doubt my ability but makes an attempt.

Title: The Secret
location: Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Munktellstaden, Sweden
medium: flat glass glued
size: 450 x 120 x 120 cm.
year: 2007
photographer: Bert Leandersson
moreover: cavities of the glass sign forms

"The sculpture consists of about 0,4 inch thick sheets of glass glued to each other with an adhesive cured by UV light. Inside, the sculpture appears a female figure, a rabbit with unusually long ears, a crescent moon and a few round balls. The viewer believed that the subject has been entered into the glass. But it is not a rabbit in there. The eye is fooled. It is the gap that creates forms."

Read the full article "The Secret" by Karin Wide Farm, The National Arts Council Yearbook 37, 2007

title: ECG for crows and songbirds
location: Vårdbyggnad, Bruna stråket 5,
Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, Göteborg, Sweden
medium: windows of frosted glass
               glass wall of laminated glass
               balancing wire sculpture in steel, electric motor
year: 2009
photographers: Bert Leandersson, Fredrik Vestergård

title: Bua's future
Location: Port in Bua, Sweden
medium: steel, designed to weathervane
size: 13 meter
year: 2007

title: Babusjka, Baby & Buddha
location: Christian Berner AB, Mölnlycke, Sweden
medium: flat glass glued
size: three object, 160 cm.
year: 2006

title: Maluma & Takete
location: Volvo AB, Lundby, Göteborg, Sweden
medium: mirror glass, sheet materials
size: 500 x 400 cm.
year: 2006

title: Temple of the doubt and hope
location: Lindholmen, Göteborg, Sweden
medium: expanded metal, surface elements
size: height 19 meter
year: 2004

title: Fish, poultry, or in between
location: Kärraskolan, Hisings Kärra, Sweden
medium: expanded metal, painting
year: 2004

title: Absit omen
location: Konst på hög, Kvarntorp, Kumla, Sweden
medium: expanded metal
size: height 9 meter
year: 2004

title: Silver Ark
location: Kongsberg, Norge
medium: steel frame, sheet materials, mirror glass
size: height 800 cm.
year: 2000
photographer: Urban Höglund

title: Nefertiti here and now
location: Thorildsplans gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden
medium: mirror glass, painting
size: 200 x 520 cm.
year: 2001
photographer: Frans Koolen