Land art installation with Öland wheat and soil 20x55x2m Algutsrum 2017
With conceptual text-based art that touches upon existential questions interpreted both abstractly and concretely, Anne Hamrin Simonsson wants to highlight and remind us of the foundation of our lives: the environment and the premises for survival and growth. She has returned to and investigated the theme of LIFE-DEATH from a micro to a macro level through various materials, techniques, and expressions.
The works are double-layered with multiple entry points and layers. In the installation LIV no 8, the artist addresses cultural heritage alongside past and present needs for survival. The World Heritage site of southern Öland's cultivated landscape inspires with customs, traditions, and symbols dating back to the Stone Age.
The word culture means processing, cultivation, and education. All human activity can be read into the concept of spiritual cultivation, socially transmitted patterns of living with an interplay between people and their environment. This is realized on several levels in LIV no 8, where cultural heritage is brought to life with sheep and people who will use the work in various ways. Nature is sometimes juxtaposed as the opposite of culture.
The earth letters that affirm life in the word LIV, as well as in the sowing upon them, also bring to mind ancient burial mounds with a similar shape but with the opposite meaning: death. The number 8 is the symbol for omega, which means immortality. Öland wheat, which had been lost but reintroduced to the island via a gene bank, has been hand-sown on the letters. The word seed (säd) is ambiguous, meaning both grain and life-giving fluid, which metaphorically embodies life through the growing process.
The project is part of Experimental Cultural Heritage with support from the Kamprad Family Foundation.
<a href="/pdf/barometern-ot/Monumentalt%20verk%20om%20liv%20o%20ch%20död.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Monumental work on life and death (pdf)</a>, article by Karin Admundsson, Barometern OT, June 30, 2017
Du har två kor, Joanna Sandell and Mathieu Vrijman, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2018
Tre bokstäver ska ge Öland liv, Interview by Peter Bressler, Sveriges radio, March 21, 2017
Land art installation with Öland wheat and soil 20x55x2m Algutsrum 2017
With conceptual text-based art that touches upon existential questions interpreted both abstractly and concretely, Anne Hamrin Simonsson wants to highlight and remind us of the foundation of our lives: the environment and the premises for survival and growth. She has returned to and investigated the theme of LIFE-DEATH from a micro to a macro level through various materials, techniques, and expressions.
The works are double-layered with multiple entry points and layers. In the installation LIV no 8, the artist addresses cultural heritage alongside past and present needs for survival. The World Heritage site of southern Öland's cultivated landscape inspires with customs, traditions, and symbols dating back to the Stone Age.
The word culture means processing, cultivation, and education. All human activity can be read into the concept of spiritual cultivation, socially transmitted patterns of living with an interplay between people and their environment. This is realized on several levels in LIV no 8, where cultural heritage is brought to life with sheep and people who will use the work in various ways. Nature is sometimes juxtaposed as the opposite of culture.
The earth letters that affirm life in the word LIV, as well as in the sowing upon them, also bring to mind ancient burial mounds with a similar shape but with the opposite meaning: death. The number 8 is the symbol for omega, which means immortality. Öland wheat, which had been lost but reintroduced to the island via a gene bank, has been hand-sown on the letters. The word seed (säd) is ambiguous, meaning both grain and life-giving fluid, which metaphorically embodies life through the growing process.
The project is part of Experimental Cultural Heritage with support from the Kamprad Family Foundation.
<a href="/pdf/barometern-ot/Monumentalt%20verk%20om%20liv%20o%20ch%20död.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Monumental work on life and death (pdf)</a>, article by Karin Admundsson, Barometern OT, June 30, 2017
Du har två kor, Joanna Sandell and Mathieu Vrijman, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2018
Tre bokstäver ska ge Öland liv, Interview by Peter Bressler, Sveriges radio, March 21, 2017
Land art installation med Ölandsvete och jord 20x55x2m Algutsrum 2017
Med konceptuell textbaserad konst som rör existentiella frågor tolkade både abstrakt och konkret vill Anne Hamrin Simonsson lyfta fram och påminna om basen i vårt liv: miljön och premisserna för överlevande och växande. Hon har återkommit till och undersökt temat LIV-DÖD från mikro- till makronivå genom olika material, tekniker och uttryck.
Verken är dubbelbottnade med flera ingångar och lager. I installationen LIV no 8 tar sig konstnären an kulturarvet med dåtida och nutida behov för att överleva. Världsarvet södra Ölands odlingslandskap inspirerar med seder, traditioner och symboler alltsedan stenåldern.
Ordet kultur betyder bearbetning, odling och bildning. All mänsklig aktivitet kan läsas in i begreppet andlig odling, socialt överförda levnadsmönster med ett samspel mellan människor och omgivning. Det blir realiserat på flera plan i LIV no 8 där kulturarvet levandegörs med får och människor som kommer att använda verket på olika sätt. Som motsats till kultur sätts ibland natur.
Jordbokstäverna som bekräftar livet i ordet LIV samt i sådden därpå, minner även om forntida gravhögar med liknande form fast med motsatt betydelse död. Siffran 8 är symbol för omega vilket betyder odödlighet. På bokstäverna har man handsått Ölandsvete, som varit försvunnet men återinförts till ön via genbank. Ordet säd är dubbeltydigt, betyder både spannmål och livgivande vätska, vilken gestaltar livet metaforiskt genom växprocessen.
Projektet är en del av Experimentellt kulturarv med stöd av familjen Kamprads stiftelse.
<a href="/pdf/barometern-ot/Monumentalt%20verk%20om%20liv%20o%20ch%20död.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Monumentalt verk om liv och död (pdf)</a>, artikel av Karin Admundsson, Barometern OT, 30 juni 2017
Du har två kor, Joanna Sandell och Mathieu Vrijman, Kalmar konstmuseum, 2018
Tre bokstäver ska ge Öland liv, Intervju av Peter Bressler, Sveriges radio, mars 21, 2017
