Lars Englund

Form, space and weightlessness. This new edition has 32 new pages with installation photographs by Gerry Johansson from the 2005 exhibition Lars Englund – a singular oeuvre in Swedish art - in a book designed to perfection by Hans Cogne. This extensive monograph covers Englund's early paintings and reliefs, enamel paintings on film, to his famous metal sculptures, oscillating wings, and spheres in various materials. In the 1960s Lars Englund (b. 1933) embarked on his own road, inspired by the materials of modern industry – plastic, rubber, concrete and, later on, carbon fibre. Using these raw materials he has created sensuously expanding structures where the materials take on a life of their own. The exhibition spans from the swelling rubber shapes of the 1960s, through the quirky experiments with organic shapes in the 1970s and ’80s, to entirely contemporary works. These playful explorations of the basic elements of sculpture oscillate stupendously between the micro and macro perspectives, with their endlessly growing formations. Today, Englund is considered to be one of the most formally adept pioneers of Swedish 20th century art. Over the years, he has had acclaimed exhibitions in Venice, Paris, Warsaw and New York. ”You're supposed to enter my works - but only with your mind.”