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Charlotte Gyllenhammar, one of Sweden’s most respected sculptors, is showing three brand new bronze sculptures. All three of these works continue her exploration of the theme of the child as an explorer and “traveller” in a world in which they are the protagonist and have renounced their infantility and cuteness. Here, they emerge as ghostly astronauts instead, perhaps preparing to leave Earth for good. The presentation of works also includes works from a big retrospective at Swedish Waldemarsudde last year: the series Crosier/Korsa. Charlotte Gyllenhammar began exhibiting in the early 1990s and has had a number of significant exhibitions and major commissions since them. Notable among them are the monumental work Untold, four metres in height, which was inaugurated on Royal Djurgården by Crown Princess Victoria in 2023, and Dag, the memorial for Dag Hammarskjöld in Uppsala in 2021. Gyllenhammar, whose works appear in important Swedish collections, has also been exhibited at the Biwako Biennale, Hikone in Japan, Blickachsen Sculpture Biennale, Bad Homburg in Germany, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London UK.
“CHART has continued to gain prominence among the arenas of contemporary art, and selecting mature, courageous artists like Charlotte Gyllenhammar and Martina Müntzing felt like a natural choice for us. The fact that they’ll be showing brand new, significant works is particularly satisfying to us, and we’re very excited to be presenting them to the fair’s visitors. I’ve been following both artists for a long time, and I’m very impressed by their latest work,” says Michael Storåkers, co-founder of CFHILL.
