The wife with the dogs, Hanne Varming
SCULPTURES IN PALSGAARD CASTLE PARK
Steel rotunda
Artist: Erik A. Frandsen
Erik A. Frandsen's monumental steel cylinder seems on the one hand like an object that has landed from outer space. It is shiny, shiny, in curved steel – a beautiful work of art in the middle of nature. On the other hand, it mirrors everything around it, nature and you as a viewer suddenly become part of what you see in the work. The work offers a parallel reality, and precisely this is a recurring theme for Erik A. Frandsen – as is the flower, the cut flower as a symbol of impermanence. In the cylinder, the only thing you cannot see is reflected in the engraved flowers – they cannot be changed, death is not up for discussion, but neither is the passage of life and the year, we see that in the reflection. The seasons change, the life cycle is endless. A work that gives room for reflection...
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About the artist
Erik A. Frandsen, b. 1957, is a self-taught visual artist. He started his artistic career by travelling around Europe and acquiring various skills. In the early 1980s, he helped start the artist community "Værkstedet Værst" with, among others, Michael Kvium, Christian Lemmerz and Lars Nørgaard.
Through his artistic work, Erik A. Frandsen has worked in many different media from painting and drawing to neon, mosaic and steel, etc. In terms of motifs, his work ranges just as wide, from the more abstract "wild" painting to figurative poart-like works with the family photo as a starting point.
Characteristic of his work, however, is the surface as a surface rather than as the basis for the three-dimensional illusion and the temporal in the translation of the motif, as something ephemeral, everyday into something static and slow, such as when he lets a photograph created in an instant slowly translate into mosaic.
Erik A. Frandsen is represented at most major Danish museums, including the National Gallery of Denmark, AROS, Kunsten and a number of foreign museums. Horsens Art Museum also has an extensive collection. Erik A. Frandsen has also made a number of larger decorations, one of the more well-known is his decoration in Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg.