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Fragment, bärverk
© Lars Englund
Fragment, bärverk
Fragment, bärverk
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Fragment, bärverk

by Lars Englund
Artist (Sverige, 1933 - 2025)
Alternate Title
  • Support Structure, fragment
Date1973
MediumPolycarbonate, rubber, aluminium and steel
Dimensions275 x 200 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1975
Object NumberNMSK 2205
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkLars Englund's works bear a distinct affinity with American minimalism in their exploration of modern materials - rubber, steel, carbon fibre, aluminium and plastics - in a non-figurative idiom. In the early 1960s, Englund began to look at materials that were untried in the art context, such as cement. His experiments led to pioneering consulting work in the cement and building industry, and eventually to commissions for works in public spaces. When Englund was asked to make a monumental sculpture for Huddinge Hospital in 1968, he designed a building kit out of transparent plastic, a Support Structure, with architectonic qualities. The object measured 7.6 x 5.2 x 3.2 metres in its original form and appeared to hover between sculpture and architecture. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall Svenskt 70-tal i Sal I (1979) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Lars Englund (den 18 februari 2023 - den 3 september 2023) Moderna Museet Malmö Molnen mellan oss (2006) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]