Jacob Dahlgren sat within his metal pink sculpture

Portrait

Jacob Dahlgren is included in EMMA’s collection exhibition which offers a fresh take on the long tradition and contemporary forms of concrete art. Featuring work by more than fifty artists, the show highlights the complexity, material diversity and playful approach of the movement.  

Concretism is an art movement characterised by the use of non-representational forms, structures and geometry. The exhibition at EMMA presents concretist works from different periods, from the very beginning of the movement in the 1950s to the present day. Works from the museum’s own collections are complemented by artworks acquired or commissioned specifically for this show. Many of the works are spatial and seek to activate the viewer’s faculties of perception. In the context of EMMA, concretism finds significant resonance with the industrial and geometric architecture of the WeeGee building designed by Aarno Ruusuvuori.

https://emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/experiments-in-concretism/

An installation by Jacob Dahlgren featuring hundreds of blue, red and green ikea weighing scales arranged into a square on the floor. Two women walk on top of the artwork.

Experiments in Concretism

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