Christian Larsen

Exhibition 03:

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Frida Tebus: Mineral Studies

October 18 – November 18, 2007

About:

Mineral Studies

Frida Tebus has investigated and worked with the form and symbolic meaning of a number of minerals. The results of this study of minerals is a series of mimetic sculptures, introducing us to a collection of sulphur, pyrite, quartz, malachite, stibnite, rock crystal, fluorite and arsenic.

A number of these minerals have historical and economic functions in industrial manufacturing processes. Others are used in jewellery, while still others have been ascribed mystical meanings and are said to have lethal or healing properties.

Frida Tebus was born in 1976 and is a recent graduate from the royal collage of fine arts in Stockholm. Her work focuses on myths and beliefs, and the visual forms by which they can be illustrated. Sculpture is Frida Tebus’ medium of choice. She has dealt with the cultural symbolism of natural phenomena in previous works. Frida Tebus has previously exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm and Kalmar art museum.