Far from being considered utopian, Absalon’s pieces have been always linked to elementary and existential questions as their real purpose was to question essential human activities and the spaces they needed to take place in. Strictly geometrical and ascetic, always in white colour, his works represent living units longing for purifying one’s life.
After giving shape to such a prolific oeuvre in only six years, lots of questions today still cannot be answered due to the early of the artist in 1993. We spoke to Susanne Pfeffer, curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, who has been working on the Absalon exhibition for the last two years. read the rest of the article here and a more detailed look after the jump.
