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Karl Chilcott

http://www.karlchilcott-art.com/

 

Graduated as a PhD. based on five years of university studies in history, philosophy and culture, studio at the Swedish west coast. Exhibitions and art projects in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, France, Suisse, Germany, Austria & Chile.

 

Statement:

For me Art has a philosophical and ecological dimension. Life on Earth is changing. Everything we do ore renounce to do is a choice. My artwork became more and more focused on “The other Space” outside the white walls. Creating in “Essential loneliness” (M. Blanchot) I work with Nature Art. That means to me not to move existing art works into nature and use den as a decoration ore the places as an arena. I want to show the nature and the spaces and find a language for them cooperating with the available nature and powers at a place like natural stones, snow and ice, flowers and grass, wool and boons, skylines, tides, traces of humans. Size is of course a question of sculpting and creating. But it also has to be for me a question of dignity. There is no need for monumentality to create signs and expressions in nature.

 

Selected Art Projects:

Black Box to the North Pole, in cooperation with the Swedish Polar Research

Secretariat/ Beringia Polarexpeditionen and Frydenhaug skole, Drammen, Norway

Circle of life. Finnmarken and Lofoten, Norway

2011 Bottna Landart, Sweden

2012 The Space of Sheeps, Spain

2013 Stone Flow, Malans, France

2013 The Gate, Pilane, Sweden

2013 Wood Flow, Vimmerby, Sweden

2013 The Eternal Moment, an one night art show in a mountain shelter, Sweden

2012 The Last Stop, Cill Railaig project, Ireland

2012 Catalan Earth, Can Serrat, Spain

2013 Jardarteiken, Skagaströnd, Iceland

2014 Terra Nova, New Foundland, Canada, (upcoming)

 

Awards:

2003 Voksenåsstipendium Sweden

2008 Vistelsestipendium konstnärshuset i Svolvaer/ Stiftelsen Svensk-norska

2008 Samarbetsfonden Norway

2011 Hanaholmenstipendium Helsinki Finnland

2011 Artist in Residence, Drammen, Norway

2012 Cill Railaig, Ireland

2012 Can Serrat, Spain