Susan Cummins: How old are you? Agnes Larsson: I turned 31 years old last November. Where do you live? In Stockholm. Why did you apply to the Emerging Artist Award competition? I found a notice about the EAA competition on Klimt02 and after reading about the participation conditions I thought it suited me perfectly at […]

Agnes Larsson, Carbo, 2011, neckpiece, carbon, horsehair, 500 x 300 mm, photo: artist. Sofia Björkman: It’s a tricky question because the world is so global now. It is also tricky to use the word Swedish. When we do so, it is, of course, important to open up …

Larsson was chosen from among 117 entries, from 38 countries. Susan Cummins, chair of the Art Jewelry Forum (AJF), and Susan Kempin, award program chair, are pleased to announce this year’s Emerging Artist Award winner, Agnes Larsson. Larsson was chosen from among 117 entries, from 38 countries.

And of course there are works made of transformed material that are fascinating to explore in real life, like the work from Seulgi Kwon, Agnes Larsson, Heejoo Kim, Aud Charlotte, and Ho Sook Sinding. A lot of Brazilians, especially the artists, can’t afford to travel very often, so it was good to be able to show them the pieces in person.

Ornamentum also showed work by Agnes Larsson, winner of AJF’s EAA this year and Adam Grinovich, another SNAG Emerging Artist lecturer. Both of their work on display relied heavily on texture and the restricted use of color. Larsson’s work combined carbon and horsehair to create monochromatic pieces that felt cryptic and severe.

Agnes Larsson, Carbo, 2011, carbon, horsehair, 400 x 180 x 10 mm, photo: artist The dark emotions that govern the contemporary works are manifest from the get-go in Agnes Larsson’s oversize necklaces featuring alluring textures of ebony and glossy lengths of hair, and described as “an expression of thoughts around death that are often too ...

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Agnes Larsson studio view, photo: Susan Cummins From there, it was a short walk to Färgfabriken, a multistory exhibit space. Sofia Björkman, who owns Platina Gallery in Stockholm and who was our host in this city, had put together a show there to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of her gallery.

Gallery S O houses its temporary exhibitions in a small hall behind its permanent salesroom in what used to be a string factory. As the gallery assistant unlocked the room for me during my visit, I noticed ‘Hans Stofer’ written in gold on the architrave above the …

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