Bronze
Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
In the garden of her home in Stockholm, the artist noticed the fallen branch of a birch, whose form, stature and dimension she found so interesting that she had it cast in bronze. The dead piece of nature is brought into a permanent form that is normally reserved for a monument. Its place in Cologne’s Sculpture Park at the center of a large, negative, below earth-level space plays with the contradictions between proportion and significance. The found object is a memorial to its own history as well as to its presentation site.
Egg tempera on bronze
Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
The small bronze by Cecilia Edefalk, in which the artist has combined a fragment of an ancient male head with scraps of bark from a birch tree branch, depicts a surreal scene that can only be imagined as cast in bronze. Two different motifs of evanescence are depicted, one from nature and the other from art. The installation site, here in the entrance area to a former bunker, underlines the impression of being on the track of an archeological finding.