KJELL VARVIN is welding thin iron rods just as easily as one is drawing a line with charcoal on a piece of paper. The procedure is not complicated, and it allows him to make free drawings into the third dimension! The objects that come out of this process, are transparent and seemingly weightless. They give the impression of being part of the room and the air. Mostly, they are exposed against a flat wall or a corner. The iron-lines stand out enough to create a sensation of floating planes. The flatness of the wall seems to open up and expand in depth. We are suddenly busy defining our own position within the area, activated by simple geometry and a few lines. We eventually find ourselves drained of all the thoughts that normally whirl around, non-stop, in our exhausted minds. Varvin admits that his concern is of this kind. He has left the storytelling aspect of images and objects and is more interested in the energy that comes out of simple objects that are formed and sized to our environment.
