Heavy metal 1998

Manhole cover in cast iron. From the exhibition “Street pictures/Gatubilder”.

CHRISTIAN PARTOS

Heavy metal 1998

Manhole cover in cast iron. From the exhibition “Street pictures/Gatubilder”.

Epifania 1995

A glass table with a copper frame forms a vessel, which is filled with water. A drop of water falls in the centre of the vessel and spreads out as a ring. The wave casts its shadow on the floor. When the wave reaches the parabolic copper shape, it bounces back and forms four straight waves, which, when they meet, for a short moment create a cross.

Lacrima Christi 1995

A colour-TV shows a black-and-white image of Jesus. Water drips on the screen and runs down his face, the water working as a lens enlarges the pixels on the screen. The teardrops shimmer in the primary colours RGB.

Conception/Konception

A 75 meter long aluminium balloon filled with helium. “Beach Art” Ljungskile, Sweden.

1996

Fireplace

Stoneware town burning with lamp oil.

1994 Pinocchio 2000

A box with a 500 meter long plastic tube on a roll. When you press a pedal, a voice says, in English: - Art can change the world. Then an air compressor starts and the inflated tube grows a bit longer.

Tracer II

Two systems of opaque plastic pipe. In each, a cartridge carrying light moves with the speed of 50 km/hour. ( Pictures taken with long exposure time.)

1998

Whisk

5 wires, 10 m. long with 1000 white LEDs, which all can be switched on and off individually. The 5 light-wires spin like big skipping-ropes, two revolutions per second. A computer, which also revolves, switches the LEDs on and off so that animated patterns are created on the revolving surface. Bitmap pictures, text etc. can be sent to the sculpture via radio link.Made for the Swedish Pavilion Expo 2000, Hanover.

2000

Armclock/Armur

A kinetic sculpture that shows the time. The three-piece hand consists of hour-, minute- and second-hand. The point of the hour-hand is the centre of the minute-hand, the point of the minute-hand is the centre of the second-hand.

1996

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Heart

Plate spring and string.

2001

Guise 1995

Scale model, 1:20. Fountain with water film. Height in full size 5 metres. Not realized.

The whisperer 1999

A trickster squirts water into a big, ear shaped basin. The ear is filled to the brim and then empties. Bronze and brick. “Park of the senses”, Almåsparken, Borås, Sweden.

Fall from grace 1997

In six small lanterns ethylene plastic burns and drips down to the ground with a whining sound. The falling drops form blue pearl-strings, and flash when they hit the ground.

Step-motor animations

A disc lit by a stroboscopic light rotates. The disc is covered with a series of pictures which move in a spiral from the outer edge to the centre. The observer can follow the film along a radius inwards. Like in memory one can move freely back and forth in time, here you can switch track anytime to repeat a sequence.

2001

Proposal for Raoul Wallenberg memorial 1998History

as we call the great events of the world hits the individual with furious force, almost impossible to defend yourself against. The sculpture, which maps the streets of Budapest, is also a tornado with its centre in the blocks where Raoul Wallenberg did his work, stood up to this force. It engulfed him. The months in Budapest were, should have been, a short time in a young persons life. In Raoul Wallenberg's life these months turned out to be what attached him in the history, our memory. For us, the tornado seems like a part of sacred architecture, a memorial for the good deeds we need in our history. For Wallenberg himself, the pillar is instead a vortex down into oblivion, the ceiling like prison bars.

Crucified 1998

Montage of Rogier van der Weydens Crucifixion and a bill sticker.

Foetus 1994-2000 A system of transparent tubes and a pump that drives round a liquid with small particles in it. These are made of an afterglow material on one side and red luminous tape on the other. The light is absorbed in the illuminated double spiral on the wall and is then pumped behind a black curtain, where the light emits like a pulsating embryo.

Striptease 1998

Two synchronized video projectors casts shadows of a stripper on a small stage (70 x 100 cm).

Teleportations 2000

The elevator has become the one part of the station that everything emanates from, in spite of not existing in the original plan. I have seized upon that change and emphasized the elevator as an element of form by giving it a different surface - yellow chromatic plate - and an optical, wry-looking tile-pattern, which gives the huge elevator an unstable fundation. The spirals out of the wall and the ring-pattern, “holes”, in the floor, generates from the elevators field of force.The mosaic figures originally were

laboratory animals (monkey, cat, frog, rabbit). They would have been teleported from the ticket-hall to different destinations in the metro system. These early experiments failed, and the walls of the ramp are covered with fragmentised animals. Only one animal, a frog, is discernible. The rest of the walls are decorated with shapes looking like fire-balls or tadpoles, streaming out to the platform.

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Extarsia 1997

Small landscapes, cut and pulled out like telescopes from tabletops.

3-D Flag 2001

In a shop-window, a grating of strips of yellow, blue and black filter are glued on to the glass. Inside is a TV, showing a flag, flying in the wind. The video is made with two cameras. The two films are colour-separated in blue and yellow and then put together. Standing close to the window, looking in, you get a yellow and a blue filter in front of your eyes and will experience a three-dimensional flag.

Christian Partos f. 1958

Utställningar2001 Stockholm, Färgfabriken, the Beckers Award, one-man show Danmark, Århus Kunstbyggning, “Nordisk rörelse/Nordic movement” Norrköping, Galleri Susanne Pettersson2000 Israel, Bethlehem, “Arv/Heritage” Stockholm, Enkehuset ,”Cura” travelling exhibition “about the concept of care” Linköping, Karlskrona, Trollhättan Gotland, N.E.W.S. travelling exhibition Hannover, Expo 2000 Svedish Pavilion Norge, Kristiansand, ”Arv/Heritage”” Stockholm, Milennium festivities, the floating crane Lodbrok1999 Malmö, Galleri 21, “Nordisk rörelse/Nordic movement” Stockholm, Konserthuset, composer festival (Per Lindgren) Polen, Szczecin, Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes. N.E.W.S. traveling exhibition Göteborg, Konstepidemin, one-man show Danmark, Århus Kunstbyggning, ”Sommarens mörka och ljusa nätter/Dark and light nights of summer” Stockholm Art Fair, Konstepidemin1998 Norway, Lillehammer kunstmuseum ”Inderligetens spill” Stockholm, Skulpturens hus, Skulpturtriennal III Stockholm, ”Port/Front door”, Rågsved Stockholm, ”Memento Metropolis”, Kulturfabriken Stockholm, ”Gatubilder/Street pictures” Stockholm, ”Ordet/The Word”, sound installation in Skeppsholmen Church Stockholm, ”Insyn/Supervision”, shop-window exhibition Stockholm, ”Start-98”, art on advertising pillars Stockholm, The Ice Pavilion, ice sculpture1997 Lunds konsthall, Smålands konstarkiv, Kristianstads läns museum ”Nytolkningar/NewInterpretations” Poland, Stettin;Slupsk;Gdansk ”God bless our mobile Home” Stockholm, Galleri Grå, ”Lek/Play” Örebro, Örebro konsthall, one-man show Göteborg Light Festival, fire-sculptures1996 Riksutställningar, train, ”Noah´s Express” Ljungskile, ”Beach Art” Borås, ”Carl von…”, two installations in the river Viskan Borås, Gustav Adolf Church, ”Återkomster/Returns”1995 Stockholm, Johannes Church, ”Återkomster/Returns” Göteborg, Trädgårdsföreningen, summer exhibition1994 Stockholm, ”Konst på Hötorget” Solna, Olle Olssonhuset, ”Tre rum & kök/Three rooms and a kitchen”1993 Stockholm, ”Triptyk”, Moderna Dansteatern, sculpture for a dance performance Visby, Galleri FGK Lunds konsthall

Offentliga utsmyckningar2000 Stockholm, Tunnelbanestation Hässelby strand1999 Borås, Sinnenas park, ”Viskan”, skulptur med vatten Stockholm, Mariaskolan, Fönsterutsmyckningar1996 Sundsvall, Stadshusparken, ”Dialog” vattenskulptur Stockholm, Sundbyskolan, ”Liten galax” rörlig neon och ”Grodfabel” skulptur1994 Stockholm, Tekniska museet, ”Spårljus” ridå och ”Kugghjulshjärtan” rörlig skulptur Norrtälje, Stora torget, ”Prinsarna på slottet” vattenskulptur Malmö, Augustenborgs torg, ”Droppkrona” vattenskulptur1993 Schweiz, Lausanne, Tetra Paks huvudkontor, ”Vindgudar”1991 Örnsköldsvik, Arken, ”Stegen” & ”Passagen” två vattenskulpturer1990 Stockholm, Sabbatsbergs sjukhus, ”Träd-gård” altanutsmyckning

Stipendier2001 Beckers konstnärsstipendiat1999 IASPIS arbetsstipendium i utland Hedersstipendium från Stockholms Stad1997 Utställning i utlandet från Konstnärsnämnden1996 2-årigt arbetsstipendium från Konstnärsnämnden1994 Konstakademien, CL Kinmanssons stipendium1992 Edstrandska stiftelsen 2-årigt arbetsstipendium från Konstnärsnämnden

Skolor83-88 Konstfacks skulpturlinje82-83 1-årig utbildning till plåt & svetsmekaniker81-82 1års förberedande konststudier på Nyckelviksskolan, Lidingö79-80 20p konsthistoria, Lunds universitet 78-79 1 års kemistudier, Lunds tekniska högskola

1992 Denmark, Copenhagen, Sothebys Gotland, Vamlingbo Germany, Insel Mainau, installations in the park, one-man show Nacka konsthall Göteborgs konsthall, ”Tiden/Time”1990 Linköping, Stenhusgården, one-man show1989 Wanås Manor, park exhibition Stockholm, Galleri Händer1988 Karlskrona, ”Karlskrona-88”, art project in the city Stockholm, Konstfack/National College of Art, Craft and Design, Annual spring exhibition Stockholm, Konstnärshuset, ”10 unga/10 Young” 1987 Örebro, Wadköpingshallen Kalmar, The Castle Park Stockholm, Millesgården, ”ProMilles”1986 Stockholm, Konstfack, ”Kinetiska skulpturer/Kinetic sculpture”