HENRIK GLAHN

Henrik Glahn's sculptures appear in the field of tension between the figurative and the abstract. The figurative accent points towards the body and the movement further into the human interior. The movement that is the artist's concern, because here it becomes exciting, and from here we can expand our world in the direction of something that is more and bigger than ourselves. Not in the physical sense, and not with our sense, but with the senses.

The material is concrete, it is skinny honestly, there is nothing chrome plated over it. Concrete mirrors man and the imperfect. With concrete, he steps out of the ideal and into the honesty and the strength that honesty gives - both psychologically and spiritually.

Concrete frees the sculptures. They can stand out in the air all year round and can reach further out into the world and can reach more. As such, concrete has a democratizing effect on art. We all need art to inspire us, help us free ourselves from our own limitations and psychological bonds, says Henrik Glahn.

The colors are mostly monochrome, to make room for the design language. But it also happens that Henrik Glahn completely turns up the palette and dresses his sculptures in fierce yellow, pink and green colors. Here, the artist's background and career as a designer break through and blend in. Maybe as an experiment, maybe as a rebellion.

The works are both monumental and powerful at the same time as they speak to the emotions, no matter where in the field between the figurative and the abstract they appear. The dialogue between form and figure and between construction and degradation, expressed through the strong and brittle concrete, is the narrative of our strength as well as our vulnerability.