PER SVENSSON – SELECTED REVIEWS / ARCHITECTURE 

 

Per Svensson,
Artist, born 1965 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Works with visual art, sound art, film and architecture

Bibliography / Selected texts & reviews;

 

*Fredric Bedoire, Solar Bioplexus; Exhibition Catalogue, Göteborg Museum of Art,
”Now Per Svensson breaks down the compact and dead carbon molecule and fills its cavities with life, with green plants that are outlined against the cobalt-blue space. The interior offers people a refuge, a lifeboat...Exiting is the meeting between the rational and the irrational, the hard and the soft, to be a realist and a romantic at the same time. This distinguishes Per Svensson from his predecessors and places him in a time like our own”
March 2000

*Carolina Söderholm, Kultur – Sydsvenskan, Art review
Per Svensson (born 1965) has spent his time to explore the great issues of life: the origin of the universe, the creation of the earth, and the origin of human existence. With geometrical sculpture, space capsules, new sound compositions and alchemical experiments he has constructed his own theory on the connection between humanity, nature and space, and written his own alternative creation narrative myth…Fundamentally there is an aspect of political and environmental consciousness, but further more clear is his pulsating vitality…in the new exhibition painting, sculpture, installations and sound art is exposed, which gives a wide image of his solitary and consistent art.
7 June 2005

*Britte Montigny, Skånska Dagbladet, Art review
The Platform of art is infinite. Deep. / Gothenburg born Per Svensson…during many years he has been bissy with research on the natural philosophical alchemy… At the exhibition we meet installations of drawing desks and chemical laboratories where the first batteries were made, paintings and objects with referenses to Life and Tellus...Per Svensson has created a wide art platform. In Media this include sound, light, drawing, painting, sculpture, objects and installations...In Svenssons alchemy you find the fifth dimension " the space age". With the installation "Space medication kit" - a blue shining glass suitcase with medical equipment for the international space center. The suitcase also carries a sign with the information "LIFE FOUND IN SPACE-WE FOUND OURSELVES" that is closing the circle on the presumption about the universe as the primordial well or source to everything.
11 June 2005


*Silvia Helperin, Kultur - Helsingborgs Dagblad/Västra Skånes Tidningar; Art review
Man in the centre of a cosmic space – He is a visual artist, composer, makes experiments with alchemy and “Life found in Space”, works also with film, architecture and sound ( as he in 1988 recorded heartbeats and let them be heard).
The inauguration of “ Organic Universe” and “Bioplex III” was held at Campus in Helsingborg. “ Organic Universe” a construction that according to the artist works like a cosmic tree. Five 6 m high stems made of galvanized iron reaches out towards space. Between the root and the crown assembles 3 rings around the stem – not unlike the image of the galaxies. 5 bronze plates established firmly in the ground. Each plate tell its story: The New Alchemy, Geological eras, The future, The United Nations Charters, and Big Bang. The southern part of the courtyard is the residence of “Bioplex III”. According to the Arts Council this is a greenhouse that looks like an igloo and has the shape of a carbon molecule.
29th October 2004

*Håkan Nilsson, DN-Kultur, Art chronicle,
”Still, Per Svensson with his battle-cry The New Alchemy, is the artist at Skulpturens Hus that is breathing, if not belief, so - struggle…Although Svenssons paintings stand in an established tradition of political painting, they snort a bit of that kick ass attitude that often is absent in art, technical or not”
15 Feb 2003

*Bertil Lundgren, Skaraborgs Allehanda, Kultur, Art review
"When the artist is mixing his ideas with material, spiritual gold is created...Per Svensson wants to show the possibilities for a creative person to give ordinary objects new dimensions. He does this with images and his interst for social issues, natural science and philosophy. In a serie of drawings we can follow Per Svenssons thoughts from the form of carbon molecule to the mysteries of the universe. A freightbox has become a beehive with autentical sound.
Per Svensson is rated one of the most interesting artists in his generation. Born in Gothenburg 1965 and educated at the Royal Univercity College of fine arts. He has exhibited the Art Academy and the Gothenburg museum of art. Together with the experimental group Audio Laboratory he is showing his interest in experimental music."
26 Jan 2003

*Kerstin Waltersson, Skövde Nyheter, Art review
- Nature is the source to everthing I do…
…The artist Per Svensson has dismantled his studio and has installed it at Skövde Konsthall”
23 Jan 2003

*Petra Ljunggren, Skaraborgs Allehanda, Art review
”He is mixing the New Alchemy” 23 Jan 2003

*Crispin Ahlström, Göteborgs-Posten,
”Alchemy that creates gold and new ideas” Per Svensson has appointed himself to alchemist of the contemporary time. And I must admit that he has further more success than his precursors to create gold, not as money, but as new thoughts and ideas.
13 Feb 2003

*Jessica Kempe, DN-kultur,
Iceland at Alma Löv Museum...,
20 July 2002

*Crispin Ahlström, Göteborgs-Posten, Art review
”Life looked upon in two different ways” During a long time he has made a research on the necessaries of life and found that he must start with carbon and water – without these the two elements life would be impossible. Drawings, paintings and sculptures has developed into the exhibition “Solar Bioplexus” – an installation that concentrate the ideas into one concept. In the centre there is a huge greenhouse. The greenhouse is shaped like a carbon molecule with a row of medical plants borrowed from the Gothenburg Bothanical Gardens…It is a beautiful garden in a smaller scale and it is watered with the same drip and fusion that gives nutrition during an operation…He is describing life from a scientific point of view, but cannot avoid the sensibility and dedication in his art. 5 March 2000

*Johan Alfredsson, Göteborgs-Posten, “Geometry meets Life...
The artist Per Svensson invites the viewer to enter the prime substance of life itself”
5 March 2000

*Pontus Hammarén, Nöjesguiden, Art in Göteborg
Per Svensson’s installation at the Göteborg Art Museum starts with the fact that all life on our olanet is built from carbon and water. In abuildt up huge, gigantic carbon molecule he has placed a greenhouse with lifegiving plants; both eatable and medical plants. The plants are nurrished by fusion. Per Svensson has created a sanctuary that shows the beauty of the geometry in nature. At the peak it is all about the existence of life.
April 2000

*Fredric Bedoire, Solar Bioplexus; Exhibition Catalogue, Göteborg Museum of Art,
”Now Per Svensson breaks down the compact and dead carbon molecule and fills its cavities with life, with green plants that are outlined against the cobalt-blue space. The interior offers people a refuge, a lifeboat...Exiting is the meeting between the rational and the irrational, the hard and the soft, to be a realist and a romantic at the same time. This distinguishes Per Svensson from his predecessors and places him in a time like our own”
March 2000

*Ida Thunberg, Nya Wärmlands - Tidningen, Chronicle and Interview (front page news)
”Consul with eternal life…-Yes we are immortal, says Per with a smile.
2 July 1998

*Ulrika Stare, Göteborgs-Posten, The Art is rising…
Per Svensson’s tower Art Capsule – Gothenburg Pavilion is also consulate for KREV. Like a hybrid between Vinga lighthouse and a space capsule the two level building is rising. During June Per Svensson himself is exhibiting, an exhibition that is strongly related to the building itself. The tower, the capsule and cosmos is reflected within the space that is both adventurous and genial.
19 June 1998

*Anette Gärdeklint, Värmlands Folkblad, Art review,
On the Alma Löv Museum and The Gothenburg Pavilion…
2 July 1998

*Ann-Charlotte Glasberg, GT, Art review,
On the Alma Löv Museum and The Gothenburg Pavilion…
4 Aug, 1998

*Per-Gunnar Kramer, GT-Kultur,
“Loaded with Energy...A collection of bronze celestial bodies floating in its own universe...
Per Svensson distinguishing quality is to unite lust of experiment with depth”, 21 Sept 1997

*Gunilla Grahn-Hinnfors, Göteborgs - Posten “The 6th element...
In the exhibition Prima Materia you get extra aware because matter in this case is not only building material, but also motif”
20 Sept 1997

*Josephine Carr, Aftonbladet – Puls, “Colour, Space and Form”
21 Mars 1997

*Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, “Sight, Sound - Action”,
20 March 1997

*Josephine Carr, Aftonbladet – Puls, “Per Svensson and Ernst Billgren’s Artfactory Production. Catalogue texts by Jan Håfström and Christer Fuglesang. No 4 on Aftonbladets top 10 list”
21 Mars 1997

*Christer Bergqvist, NWT
24 hour Art - The bronze sculptures in Torsby symbolize the five elements; earth, air, fire, water and the ether…
30 Sept 1996

*Rolf Hallin, Arbetet, Art Chronicle, Interview
Per Svensson född 1965, göteborgare (Majorna) har sin första separatutställning på Mors Mössa i Haga.…Per Svensson visar svetsade skulpturer och målningar med andlig energi”
23 Feb 1991

*Lars O Ericsson, Dagens Nyheter
Overreacted Contrasts – L. O. E. sees 5 current exhibitions; Richard Long, Einar Höste, Alf Linder, Ulf Rollof, Per Svensson.
… At Sweger Konst he is showing a combination of sculpture and painting…there is also within these objects a tension between the metallic cold and the colouristic nerve that is capable of development and progress…
17 October 1990

 

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