Visitors will recognize the materials Englund uses from building facades and workshops, and his choices draw our attention to our everyday surroundings, elevating the commonplace to the extraordinary. We can follow his exploration of form through an extensive collection of sketches, some of which are construction drawings, others painstakingly, almost meditatively, rendered repetitions.
This presentation combines a monographic collection exhibition with works on loan from the artist. The focus of Englund’s work is revealed in titles that associate to fundamental science, such as “Volume”, “Sphere”, and “Pars Pro Toto” (part of a whole). His sculptures, which often hang from the ceiling, interact with one another and challenge the surrounding space. They establish a dialogue with the building’s industrial history as an electrical power plant, designed by John Smedberg and constructed in 1901, but also with its present form as a work of architecture adapted by Tham & Videgård to be a museum, with its distinctive perforated orange facade—a material to which Englund makes reference.
Lars Englund was born in 1933 in Stockholm, and he now lives and works in Stockholm and in Jonstorp, Scania County. Although in the studio his sculptures are packed together, in the gallery they are set off against their surroundings, creating directional axes through the space. There is no clear reference point for these works; instead, we are invited to move around and in relation to their abstract forms.
Englund was celebrated with a large solo show at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to the 2003 exhibition “Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall”, and his work was featured the year before that at Lunds Konsthall. Over the years, he has also shown at acclaimed international exhibitions in Venice, Warsaw, New York, and most recently in Paris at the Centre Pompidou’s 2021 exhibition [AERODREAM].
Curator: Elisabeth Millqvist
The exhibition is made in collaboration with Yvonne Möller.
