David Svensson – Old World Rise Again
New Sculptures and Installations
 
25 January – 25 August 201
 
In his exhibition Old World Rise Again, the Swedish artist David Svensson (born 1973) works with light and glass. He focuses on the transparency, fragility and history of his materials to create visually and sensually seductive worlds. There is both a sense of formal experimentation about his sculptures and of the artist challenging the dialogue between work and observer. Svensson uses everyday materials such as lamps, lamp chimneys, vases and carpets – woven paintings, as he calls them – and pages from books in his graphic works. By using these materials and ready-mades he inserts a story based in everyday life, the immediately recognizable. The exhibition presents new works showing the artist’s fascination with surface, mirroring and the observer’s reflection in the work. The exhibition demonstrates how David Svensson sets up material spaces for reality’s appearances, and how he generates thoughts of a more existential character concerning the encounter between art and the forms of everyday life.
 
David Svensson graduated from the Malmö Art Academy in 2000. This will be his first solo presentation in Denmark. The artist lives and works in Malmö.