Anne Guro Larsmon has worked in the Metal Workshop and The Casting Studio to prepare pieces for the group exhibition Above the Sky, Beneath the Ground at 68th Art Institute in October 2021 – curated by Rebecca Møller-Hansen. The final results of her residency was shown in correlation to the exhibition TOMBAC w/ Mia Van Veen at Sagene Kunstsmie in Oslo in November.
Oct. 2021
For this project I have been interested in how flowers read time (flowerclock), and I’ve been immersed in Charles Darwins drawings of plant movements. Darwin traced different plant movements through a glass plate, tracking their cultivation and flourishing.
The drawings are reminiscent of star maps, and through abstraction I wanted to transform them into sculptures with materials such as brass, copper or steel. I tried different materials, methods, and did a lot of skething at SVFK.
My work is mostly based on analytical research, ideas and content derived from a scientific view, the thinkers of enlightenment, mythological and cinematographic heritage. I frequently use steel in my sculptures, but concurrently juxtaposing this heavy material with glass/flowerseeds and scent.
At The Casting Studio I learned about copper and brass soldering. This was a thecnique I had not tried before.