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 EVENT HORIZON IV, 2011 FRESCO TEMPERA 29.5X29.5 IN. | 74.9X74.9 CM.
 EVENT HORIZON IX, 2010 FRESCO TEMPERA 32X18 IN. | 82.6X45.7 CM.
LIFE OF WATER, 2012 BRONZE 32X24X24 IN. | 81.3X60X60 CM. 

Karen Salicath’s forms are graceful stately pieces. There is a great
careful simplicity and preservation of bare and minimal beauty in
her sculpture. Black Lady, one of Salicath’s representational works,
shows a monumental woman rising out of smooth black granite base.
The woman is like a siren - perfect and curvaceous in the sense
of heroic classical figuration. Her features are reduced to smooth
graceful bronze swells of flesh. The whole figure feels unified and
empowered by Salicath’s union of string materials with a monumental
form. She uses the body, the ”corpus” as she describes it, to build
a common starting point.
Her figures embody a type of universal generality that links all people.
Working with archetypical forms she builds a language that speaks
to everyone. Salicath, talented across multiple sculptural mediums,
graduated the Danish Design School in 1991.She has participate in
many exhibitions throughout Scandinavia and London, and received
numerous stipendiums for her work.

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