Competition of a sculpture to a public place in Katrineholm. Presentation in October 2018.
Public commission to a preschool in Järfälla kommun. The accepted proposal "Kopparvägens Zoo" contains three smaller assemblages of enlarged toys in painted and not painted aluminum. Installation in the end of September 2018.
Public commission to a preschool in Nacka kommun. The accepted proposal "House on Boots" contains one assemblage of a house with four Barbie-boots. Installation during spring 2019.
Model in wax of WATER.
Public commission to a school at Styrsö in the archipelago of Gothenburg. The accepted proposal " Metallic Flowers" contains eight flowers built of toys connected to the four elements: Air, Earth, Water and Fire casted in aluminum Installation in November 2019.
"Mr Majestät", aluminum.
Permanently placed at "Konst på Hög" in Kumla in June 2018.
"Fågel, Fisk eller Mittemellan" is a public commission for the new
Kungälvs Resecentrum. Contains a group of three sculptures in glassfiber standing on a sitting furniture.
Inaugurated 29.4 2018
"Kumla-Kotten", aluminium 2018. Installed in Kumla 17th of April 2018.
Photo: Johan Ardefors
Five minutes film about Lena Flodman by Linnea Schröder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJ0Nf2nI_s
Conversation about art and plastic between Marie Löf, ecotoxicologist, Sebastian Johans art critic and Lena Flodman, artist. Moderator: Maria Lilja
https://stockholmuniversity.app.box.com/s/a7cqclbccy0gw1prx7orzpon51zzrbij
"Utan måtta och logik" at Domeij Gallery 24.2-24.3 2018
www.galleridomeij.com
Lena Flodmans dystopiska rokoko
Att vandra runt bland Flodmans objekt är som att stiga in i ett karnevalistiskt skräckkabinett eller möjligen som att ta del av en dystopi som utspelar sig i en karamellaffär. De belyser en aktuell miljöproblematik och kan beskrivas som en samplad problemformulering som lurar in betraktaren på ett ämne som oftast framstår som såväl vältröskat som deprimerande. Men pekpinnarna saknas.Den eventuella nyttan är inte kalkylerad, utan råkar bara vara en konsekvens av konstnärens estetiska val.
Objektens svulstiga på gränsen till hejdlösa ornamentering och frustande världsfrånvända glädje är också en tämligen självklar blinkning till rokokon.
Och om det vill sig riktigt illa är det möjligen här man hittar den mest självklara ingången till en läsning av Lena Flodmans konst. Kanske är långsamt multnande plastleksaker den utgångspunkt antropocens tidevarv erbjuder oss när vi ska utforma våra böljande rocailler.
Sebastian Johans konstkritiker
Välkommen!
/English version
- Without moderation or logic
Lena Flodman's dystopian rococo
To wander around among Flodman's objects is like entering a haunted house at a carnival or possibly as part of a dystopia that unfolds in a candy store. It portrays a current environmental problem which lures the observer to a topic that is portrayed as deeply analytical as well as depressing. But the point is missing. The possible good is not calculated, it just happens to be a consequence of the painter's aesthetic choices.
The objects' bombastic bordering, rampant decoration and frustrating misanthropic delight is also a rather obvious twinkle to the rococo.
And if it goes really wrong it is possibly here one can find the most obvious entrance to interprete Lena Flodman's art. Perhaps slowly decomposing plastic toys are the starting point for the Anthropocene age that is presented to us when we are supposed to shape our rolling rocailles.
Sebastian Johans critic
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