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CARBO
AGNES
LARSSON
14th
April - 14th May 2011
Platina
welcomes Agnes Larsson for her first solo exhibition in the gallery. In
a short time, she has surprised her audience with unexpected large seductive
jewellery made in blackest carbon. With a deft hand Agnes Larsson has
succeeded to transform carbon into a cohesive body of work Together with
horsehair she creates basic forms as shields along the body. The result
is a series of elegant necklaces with dominant expression.
Agnes
Larsson's work often starts in abstract thoughts about great forces that
surround us, thoughts which can be difficult to express in words, such
as life, death, heaviness and lightness.
"With
these words in mind I do a selection of material, in this case carbon,
a basic material existing in all living things around but which we also
consider to be dead, burned and charred.
Very often, I let the material in itself be the guideline. Thoughts in
collaboration with my hands make the researching. Deep inside the core
material I make the sketch work. Limitless, intuitively and fairly quickly
I am looking for expressions that match, respond to and express something
related to the theme. Often I use opposites to emphasize different characteristics
of the material that I think are important for this work. A second material
is added, horsehair, a natural material that has connections to a body
and a life. "- Says Agnes Larsson
At
first glance, these jewellery pieces seems heavy and impossible to wear
but in fact they are light and shaped for the body. Opposites may seem
typical of Agnes Larsson's work, life and death, light and darkness, surface
and depth, fragility and strength. And, that's just the way life is -
natural and mysterious.
Agnes
Larsson received his Master degree from Konstfack College of Arts 2007.
In 2010 she was awarded two major awards for her jewellery;
BAYERISCHER
KUNSTGEWERBE-Verein e.V.
GERMANY
KUNST + CRAFTS Arts and Crafts
http://www.kunsthandwerk-bkv.de/verein/bkv-preis/bkv-preis-2010.html
AJF
Art Jewelry Forum
U.S.
2010 AJF Emerging Artist Award Winner
http://www.artjewelryforum.org/programs/eaa
http://www.artjewelryforum.org/print/614
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