À découvrir / Les sculptures "Tétris" de Michael Johansson

Chameleon, 2014.
Ordinary items, dimensions: 3 x 3.5 m.
Installation view: Very Fun Park, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei (TW)

Artiste suédois, Michael Johansson fait de Tétris une réalité physique et esthétique. Il emboîte des objets abandonnés, chinés pour en créer des sculptures et des installations. Ces objets disparates, des livres, des valises, des boîtes et autres objets de tous les jours retrouvent une seconde vie sous la forme de compositions colorées et géométriques.

Dawn (Light), 2013. Mixed media, dimensions: 80 x 80 x 80 cm / Dagar och Namn, 2010(Days and Names)
Archive system, folders, binders, slide projector, telephone, etc., dimensions: 0.7 x 0.6 x 0,25 m.
Installation view: Meaning of Void, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)

Concrete Cube, 2013,
Projet R, Massy, france

Shade, 2013 - Ordinary items, dimensions: 3.8 x 5.6 m.
Installation view: Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm (SE)

“I am fascinated walking around flea markets finding doubles of seemingly unique, though often useless objects I have already purchased at another flea market. Despite the fact that I did not have any use for them even the first time, the desire to own two of these objects becomes too strong to resist. The unique and unknown origin of the object increases my desire to want the double – the unlikelihood of this sensation repeating itself produces an attraction that is too strong to resist.”

elf Contained, 2010, Containers, caravan, tractor, Volvo, pallets, refrigerators, etc., dimensions: 8,2 x 10.8 x 2,4 m.
Installation view: Umedalen Skulptur, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå (SE)

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