Edith Karlson
17.7.-5.8.13
Hobusepea galerii, Tallinn
Installation/sculpture
This is an artist that obviously has fun while sculpting, going wild with dinosaurs, monsters, blood and garbage. The whole floor of the gallery basement is temporarily covered in plaster as base for the bag monster and its bag eggs(?), and the giant dinosaur constantly spewing blood into an oil tin. You might think you are sneaking in on the dinosaur, but all the time it is watching you through the mirror.
In an interview the artist dreams about getting a formal comission from the city, then she would make a sculpture of a riding mayor and his army, riding on dinosaurs. I know several existing sculptures in the city that I would love to be exchanged with this vision by Karlson.
