Review: Per Svensson - The State of the Art
THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Artreview by Thomas Millroth in Sydsvenskan, SE, Art
September 16, 2010
Per Svensson
The State of the Art, Martin Bryder Gallery, Lund, SE, until 3rd of October
Alvin Lucier
Sferics, Scaniaparken, Malmoe, SE, until 4th of October
Thomas Millroth see two current exhibitions in which all elements is contained in the same work.
In a time of rapid sensory stimuli persist with sound issues, which connect both ritual and religion.
How else am I perceive American Alvin Luciers installation Scaniaparken? The crackling of dry wood, a forty-minute composition of recorded, normally inaudible, radio waves. All of a sudden becomes the park, sky, sea, water incredibly present and immersive. And the new place I hear reminds me of the limitations of our senses.
There are no simple questions Lucier raises.
It is even more pronounced in Per Svensson's magnificent exhibition, which vibrates the floor of the loops. The pulse is higher than in Lucier and the installation is made in the burning conviction that art is a space where poetry, sounds and ideas can be reconciled. Expressions alchemy creates entries in the life cycle in its broadest sense. It is mysticism-shaped with a punky BZ-aesthetics - occupy your life, accept no leaders. But Svensson also lets us glimpse a gentle fragrance of honey, then a dodecahedron of beeswax is heated. This geometric body is constructed of 12 pentagones and deemed to represent the quinta essentia, the fifth element, quintessence, which itself ran to the other elements, earth, fire, water, air.
"Give me honey," wrote Joseph Beuys, thinking of the warm, life-giving properties.
With the same existential beliefs, Per Svensson completed his work.
Like Lucier, who turns Scaniaparken a ritual site. In particular, he has created a modern form of embodiment, when the sparklike sounds combined with water, sky, park - all the elements contained in the same mode.
As a viewer, it feels great to be taken so seriously.
Thomas Millroth, Author, Art critic
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Source Translated from Sydsvenskan, Konst,
September 16,2010
| Review Date | 21 Sep 2010 17:50 |
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magnificent exhibition |
