Page 152 - Contemporary Art and Old Masters

BABYDETECTOR, 2005 GLASS, PLASTIC, RUBBER - ASSEMBLAGE 7.4X80.7X80.7 IN. | 19X20,5X20,5 CM.
THOUGHT CLEANER 2, 2007 GLASS, PLASTIC, SILICONE - CASTING, ASSEMBLAGE 10.2X7.8X9 IN. |
26X20X23 CM.
ART AND ARTISTS 22X17X17 CM.
CENCORSHIP, 1991 RUBBER, ELASTIC, LEATHER, SINGLE RECORDS - ASSEMBLAGE 8.6X6.6X6,6 IN. |
LIFE, 2008 SILICONE, ACRYLIC, PLASTIC, BAMBOO, GLASS - CASTING, ASSEMBLAGE 54.3X18.8X5.1 IN. |
138X48X13 CM.
FOOTHOLD, 2014 PLASTER, WOOD - CASTING, ASSEMBLAGE 19.2X10.2X12.5 IN. | 49X26X32 CM.

KAREN HØJSGÅRD NIELSEN
Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden
http://www.artguide.dk/karenhoejsgaard

Karen Højsgård Nielsen is educated as a sculptor at The Royal
Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen 1982 - 88. She has
exhibited separately and with groups from 1980 : Drawings,
sculptures and installations. In 1993 she received the Danish
State Art Foundation´s 3 - year working grant, also a great
deal of smaller bursaries too. The titles of her exhibitions
gives a link to the working concept: transparent, being,
golden time, alchemy, test of paradise, deferred time ...

She works with inward pictures - which transform elements from the
everyday life as well as the metaphysics sphere to universal symbols
in a simple, poetic, philosophic and often subtle humoristic expression.
Like aphorism touches her work an archetypical mind by adding new
constellations with a twist of contemporary themes for instance : Hey
Monkey, DNA, Baby Detector, Thought Cleaner, Monotheism ...Well
known objects are assembled: A nap, a ruler, a wheel ... and in cases,
where the device and the idea can enrich each other, birth is given to
new associations. Often she uses classical methods: Modelling - and
later on casting in moulds. But she has too a great fascination of using
modern materials such as acrylic, silicone, latex ...and explores with
curiosity if this stuff - without a long historical frame of references - can
influence the world of ideas to be depict. The artist is searching for
some quintessence = a sorting out statements from the laboratory and
turn them to new adventures.

152 WORLD of ART