Stabil Lars Englund
Born 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden Works in Jonstorp and Stockholm, Sweden Over a period of almost half a century Lars Englund has created some 40 or so public sculptures in Sweden; justly he is called the Nestor of Sweden’s sculptural world. With Lars Englund’s new, five-metre high black-painted aluminium sculpture Stabil, central Borås has now acquired a new landmark at the crossing of Yxhammarsgatan and Allégatan. - I have always viewed Lars Englund as a genuine avant-garde artist, someone who is always keen to move forward and show us something new and, at the same time, to see a resonance in history further back than the modernism of the 20th century, writes Museum Director Lars Nittve in his forward to the extensive catalogue of Lars Englund’s major exhibition at Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) in Stockholm 2005. Lars Englund has always gone his own way as an artist in respect of natural abstraction, concretism and minimalism. In the differences, in the borderland; this is where Lars Englund shapes his artistic language. Lars Englund himself is keen to highlight the role of the process, the importance of the conceptual stage and the work of finding suitable tools to enable the shaping of a unique expression. Purchased: Borås Stad (2010)
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