Charlotte Gyllenhammar kastad/cast

In connection with Charlotte Gyllenhammar's exhibition kastad/cast, Skissernas Museum is publishing a book with the same title. It is richly illustrated with earlier works along with new ones that have not been published before. The book contains texts by Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Mikael van Reis, Saul Anton and a foreword by Patrick Amsellem. The title of Gyllenhammar's exhibition and book plays with the ambiguity of the word kasta, an Old Norse word from which the English word cast is derived. The English word cast can mean both to throw and to mold. The many meanings of the word describe Gyllenhammar's art, an investigation of what it means to be human, cast out into a reality that is often brutal. Since "Dö för dig" (1993), one of Gyllenhammar's earliest works, she has shifted perspectives. The upside-down oak she temporarily hung over Drottninggatan in Stockholm embodied the vulnerability of even the most powerful of trees. In kastad/cast, Gyllenhammar continues to shift perspectives to examine the conditions of human existence and the artistic creative process. The book is wire-bound, hard cover with textile ISBN: Skissernas Museum 978-91-639-3728-6 Publisher: Skissernas Museum, December 2020 Editor: Patrick Amsellem, Malin Enarsson Photo editor: Emma Krantz Texts: Saul Anton, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Mikael van Reis, foreword by Patrick Amsellem Images: richly illustrated with color photographs Language: Swedish and English Pages: 88 Graphic design: All The Way To Paris, Copenhagen, Denmark Printing: Narayana Press, Denmark Weight: 727 g