EXPO ‘NEW PLACES – Abstractions of a City’ – Platina, Stockholm (SE) – 21 Mars-13 Avril 2013

Karin Johansson: NEW PLACES – Abstractions of a City

(Karin Johansson Necklace: White Corner 2013 – Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed pink coral, acrylic – photo by Johan Hörnestam)

« In the beginning, a variety of many-coloured images of a city: meeting points, streets, people, blue skies, night and day. Staying in a playful mood, capturing the pulse, the movement, or the silence.
Sketching, cutting paper, creating a map of sorts in my studio, micro and macro at once as my perspective. Picking out colours, choosing materials, thinking about my purpose, reflecting on meanings and limitations. Giving each element its shape, assigning it a size and its place, connecting it further to circumscribe in to space.
Having it all transform into a necklace seemed only most obvious to me: no up, no down, playing around the neck, constantly finding new directions. Wearing the object, you become the inhabitant of the new place. «  Karin Johansson

 Karin Johansson Necklace: « Shortcut II » 2012  Gold, enamel, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral, reconstructed jade, acrylic  88 cm  photo by Johan Hörnestam

Karin Johansson  Necklace: Backyard 2013  Gold, oxidized silver, enamel, reconstructed pink coral, reconstructed onyx, acrylic  photo by Johan Hörnestam

Karin Johansson  Necklace: After The Rain 2013  Gold, enamel, reconstructed jade, acrylic  photo by Johan Hörnestam

Karin Johansson  Necklace: Mid Day 2013  Gold, enamel, reconstructed white coral, reconstructed pink coral, acrylic  photo by Johan Hörnestam

 

 

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