Water levels, cable rolls, measuring tapes and darts: Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren ‚paints‘ with a wealth of quotidian objects in his monumental abstract sculptures and video works.
He celebrates geometric patterns, rhythm and repetition, and play- fully thematizes cultural and and social codes: consumerist culture and its objects, Nordic design of the 50s and 60s and the connec- ted Utopian …
He celebrates geometric patterns, rhythm and repetition, and play- fully thematizes cultural and and social codes: consumerist culture and its objects, Nordic design of the 50s and 60s and the connec- ted Utopian life designs. By arranging identical objects in different colors in a series, they lose their original function and become new democratic forms: they become a community.
He shares the authorship of his …
