Title: Öar
Technique: Glazed stoneware
Location: Tjärvhovsgatan 13
Art consultant: Peter Lundström
The ceramist Pär Axelsson began his artistic career by designing and manufacturing everyday objects in stoneware. That is why he calls himself a potter. Vessels for everyday use still interest him. The imprints of the hands, the own imprints as a human being, are a fundamental element in his creation. The wheel is his main working tool in that process. There is a consistent desire here to create everyday objects with his own personal expression in a sustainable way.
Axelsson is increasingly interested in the vessel as form, object and expression - its physical function and place in culture. The ceramic vessel has a multicultural history; in its form and context. If you, like Pär Axelsson, see the vessel also as a metaphor for humans, endless possibilities for storytelling are opened up. The vessels he designs have their individual expressions, which are characterized by, among other things, basic character, proportions, center of gravity and varying degrees of openness and generosity. The color and texture of the glazes also interact. Sometimes he creates still lifes where several vessels are arranged in rhythmic groups, where they relate to and interact with each other. Here there is room for personal experiences of self-perception as well as relationships and grief.
When Pär Axelsson works purely sculpturally in clay, in reliefs or free-form sculpture, he carries with him the ceramic tradition. The material is central, and here, just as in the vessels, the process is fundamental. With the imprint of his hand, Axelsson explores his world and his time. Sometimes he playfully lets the imprint itself create the form elements, the building blocks of the work. With the hand's firm grip on the clay, he can create the forest itself.
In an eventful and sometimes dark contemporary times, there is much that needs to be processed. Pär Axelsson processes and comments on it in the mud. The will is there to make what worries understandable and manageable, but also to highlight what brings joy and zest for life.
Islands of various kinds are recurring motifs in Axelsson's work. Sometimes the island is also a metaphor for the individual, perhaps even a kind of self-portrait. But the island is also a place for memories, or a stage for events and quiet drama.
Pär Axelsson was born in 1961 and works in Robertsfors.
Instagram: @par.pelle.axelsson
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