Skulptur - Rörelse

Title : Movement

Artist : Pierre Olofsson (1921 - 1996)

Year of acquisition : 1954

Technique/material : Fris. Plaster and smaltomosaic (slagstone and glass). Photographer : Sandvikens konsthall

Location : Barrsätragatan Cultural Center

Above the entrance to the cultural preschool Flygande draken, located on Barrsätragatan at the back of the Cultural Center, we find a border, a frieze, whose strong colors clearly emerge from the red brick facade. The base of the frieze is black and dark, but inside the black frame are a number of circles in different bright colors. The circles are of different sizes and they enter each other from different angles. A large circle may contain several other smaller circles in different colors and positions. The variation, dynamics and relationships between the rounds/circles create a sense of movement. Color contrasts are used to create spatial effects.

The work is by Pierre Olofsson, a concrete artist who worked in his art with a geometric construction of rotating rounds.

Olofsson is responsible for several public works in Sweden, including a work in the Stockholm metro.