Trendy fonts and tungsten at the art museum – Göteborgs-Posten

The artist Hilda Hellström and typeface designer Carolina Laudon takes place at the Gothenburg Museum of Art. In the exhibition with the two Stena fellows meet monumental and small print, brutal and brittle.

On Saturday is the opening of the museum “bottom bunk.” The somewhat elusive hall is actually the museum’s largest and necessary when Carolina Laudon and Hilda Hellström exhibits.

– There are two really exciting women artists, who are very different from each other, but who also have similarities in that both explores materials, formats and historiography, says Johan Sjöström, curator at the Art Museum.

Carolina Laudon shows some of their working process in lighted display cases. Among other things, she has created typefaces for Systembolaget, Dagens Nyheter and Akademibokhandeln.

She has also blown up foot-high letters on the walls, where she deconstructs fonts and gives feminist statements, by their own professional role. “A one woman show type” it says, among other things.

– It’s about daring to see and define itself. All may not be aware that they fit into the homogeneous form they experience in society. Feminism, human issues, intersectionality and how we communicate globally fascinates me, says Carolina Laudon.

Gothenburg-born Hilda Hellström show, among other things, two entirely new works of large blocks of coal-based rock anthracite. They are stacked so that they lock each other in architectural forms that exudes both pressure, weight, and a strange fragility.

– Carbon is a very educational material, which is used in so many different stages of metamorphosis genomic process, from coal we burn to the diamond. It’s all about pressure, time and temperature, she says.

She also exhibits urns in the stone-like composite material Jesmonite. From the ceiling hang the sculpture The Monument, in colored and milled Jesmonite assembled with a giant crystal, the largest company Swarowski had done.

– I started with Google Earth and used a computer program to transform the topography in a small mountain village the sculptural form. The crystal repeat shape, though mirrored. It will be like an iceberg and is a monument to the company.

Hilda Hellström might best-known works are containers for food storage created by a material containing radioactive soil from Fukushima in Japan . Gothenburg Museum of Art thanked However, no.

– We did not take such risks, in the interests of staff and audience, we choose not to show it, says Johan Sjöström.

FACT: The fellows

Sten A. Olsson cultural scholarship will be awarded for the 17th time. This year, six fellows SEK 150 000 each:

The Artist Hilda Hellström

Musical Artist Philip Jalmelid

composer Roger Johansson

Font designer Carolina Laudon

Light designer Max Mitle

Contra Bassist Jenny Ryder Berg

The exhibition of works by Carolina Laudon and Hilda Hellström has opening Saturday at 14.00 at the Gothenburg Museum.