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KAREN HØJSGÅRD NIELSEN

Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden
http://www.artguide.dk/karenhoejsgaard

Karen Højsgård Nielsen (*1952 Roskilde DK) is educated as a Deferred time… gives a link to her working concept. She

sculptor at The Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen works with inward pictures which transform elements
1982 - 88. She has exhibited separately and with groups from the daily life´s nearness to metaphors and universal
since 1980: Drawings, sculptures, objects and installations. symbols in a simple, poetic, philosophic and often subtle
In 1993 she received the Danish State Art Foundation´s humoristic expression. As 3-dimensional picture lyrics /

3 -years working grant, and in between a great deal of aphorism comments her work different aspects of the life
smaller bursaries too. Since the year of 2000 she lives and of the human beings, and touching the archetypical mind
works in Malmö, Sweden. She made a lot of journeys - and by adding new constellations with a twist of contemporary
has been a teacher too. The titles of her own exhibitions: themes for instance with titles as: Hey Monkey, D N A, Baby

Transparent, Being, Golden time, Alchemy, Test of Paradise, detector, Thought cleaner, Monotheism …

ARTIST

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GOLDEN TIME, 1992 INSTALLATION, DIRECTLY MODELLING, ASSEMBLAGE, (*THE NEW, PLASTER, PLASTIC, IRON 47.2X66.9X11 IN. |120X170X28 CM., *A
LIGHT, PLASTER, GLASS, GLOW LAMP 86.6X13.7X11 IN. | 220X35X28 CM., *PROPHET VIEWERS, COPPER, PLASTIC 92 PIECES A 7.8X9.8 IN. | 20X25 CM.)
 MYTHOLOGICAL TABLE WITH THE WHEEL & THE FIRE, 1988 CASTING (*TABLE, PLASTER 33.8X26.7X39.3 IN .| 86X68X100 CM. *THE WHEEL, BRONZE,
96 IRON 10.2X16.5X7.8 IN. | 26X42X20 CM. *THE FIRE, BRONZE 5.3X4.3X3.7 IN. | 13,5X11X9,5 CM.)