Knäpper Sprach Experimente is Carl Boutard’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Boutard (b. 1975) graduated from the Malmö Art Academy in 2007. His works make part of private collections, as well as the collections of The Museum of Sketches in Lund and Malmö Art Museum. He recently participated in exhibitions at Lunds konsthall, Lund Sweden and at The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland. As of January 2013 Boutard’s public art work Into the Wild, made possible via The National Public Art Council Sweden, will be installed at the department of Architecture at Lund University. Boutard lives and works in Malmö.
Carl Boutard writes:
The exhibition Knäpper Sprach Experimente show a language construction made out of wood and bronze. Pieces of plants, acquired from my everyday environment, have been put together to create larger units. During the design process the parts have been bent, cut and linked, as though they were characters, words and meanings within the written and spoken language. Branches have been cut and the parts reunited to shape a new outcome. A unity has developed from peanuts, fennel and leaves in bronze. Sometimes I have allowed the process to come to an end at the moment when leaves and nuts were transformed into bronze. These works then still have the assisting network of channels that the bronze, air and ashes have run through. Usually however I merge these forms further in a process that resembles the writing of a text. My selection of objects and materials could then be compared to a poet's choice of words within a poem. The used parts, as well as the way in which they have been merged, determine the character of my own language.
Carl Boutard writes:
The exhibition Knäpper Sprach Experimente show a language construction made out of wood and bronze. Pieces of plants, acquired from my everyday environment, have been put together to create larger units. During the design process the parts have been bent, cut and linked, as though they were characters, words and meanings within the written and spoken language. Branches have been cut and the parts reunited to shape a new outcome. A unity has developed from peanuts, fennel and leaves in bronze. Sometimes I have allowed the process to come to an end at the moment when leaves and nuts were transformed into bronze. These works then still have the assisting network of channels that the bronze, air and ashes have run through. Usually however I merge these forms further in a process that resembles the writing of a text. My selection of objects and materials could then be compared to a poet's choice of words within a poem. The used parts, as well as the way in which they have been merged, determine the character of my own language.