Metápolis – Sculpture installation
30.8 – 12.10 1986
The city as betrayal and promise, form and utopia. A provocative contribution in connection with the housing exhibition Bo86, which took place in Malmö. Seven artists were invited to express their feelings about the city of change. Dick Bengtsson’s installation Möbelräls, featuring an authentic railway track with rails, sleepers, and gravel, along with arranged old furniture, evokes thoughts of events in our contemporary history. Hand is the name of Lars Kleen’s monumental wooden sculpture and is a tribute to Vladimir Tatlin, one of the great Russian constructivists.
Sivert Lindblom’s work Ironiskt monument consists of small, identical clay figures displayed on tall white pedestals. He started from a sculpture in which he portrayed himself, and then modeled sixteen sculptures to resemble it as closely as possible.
Lars Englund’s building Annex 1986. In this tent-like structure made of metal pillars and metal mesh, two worlds meet: the static and the changing.
