Louise Sass

Commission

Public work for the Serafen supportive housing complex. Bolinderplan 1, Kungsholmen. Stockholm, Sweden.

Competition by invitation from Stockholm Arts Council 2002.
Project proposal approved March 2003. Inaugurated September 2004.

The decoration comprises:
Two textile works: Wall frieze "Panorama" and stage curtain, "Colour Keyboard" for an assembly hall.
Series of nine paintings on Japanese paper, including Black Serafen # 4 – 2, for passages and elevator hall.

Assembly hall

Losa Hall

Panorama


Wall frieze. Hand-painted. Reactive dye, cotton. Five sections, total: 1,8 x 6,2 m, 2004.

The "Panorama" textile is an anarchistic game with colours and sizes. It ranges from quiet to more intense colour clashes in a play on foreground and background. 101 vertical lines together form the rhythmic sequence of colours.

Colour Keyboard


Stage curtain. Hand-painted. Reactive dye on cotton. 2,5 x 6,5 m, 2004.

The background of the stage curtain is in slowly gliding motion intersected by vertical interludes of contrasting colour tones. The combinations for the interludes have been composed from a keyboard of eleven colour hues.

Keyboard


Acrylic on paper.
4,5 x 11cm.

Black Serafen #4-2


Painting. Acrylique on paper.
55 x 49 cm. 2004.

Artikel om udsmykning af Serafens Ældrebolig


Kunstuff, Magazine, Danish crafts
and design No. 5, 2005.

Read Cromatic Scales (page 2), Working portrait by Malene La Cour Rasmussen.

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