axel karfors: stucco boom

'stucco boom'
image courtesy axel karfors


swedish artist axel kårfors has sent us his most recent work 'stucco boom', which investigates
about the possibilities of the stucco medium as tool for sculpting to evoke a contemporary
expression for interior spaces. with its large bulbous shape, 'stucco boom'  re-elaborates the
ionic capital.

'the development of stucco ornamentation, compared with other forms of ornament
in interior design, has been relatively static after modernism. I want to search for a new
idiom, beyond classical stucco depicting verdant greenery and bunches of grapes, and
beyond modernist stucco that is reduced to only fulfilling such functions as embedding
armature or spreading light.' - AK



stucco boom installed at konstfack university college of arts, crafts and design



production process



modules in plaster



structure in metal and styrofoam



one half of 'stucco boom'