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Allan McCollum, Parables<\/em>, 1998. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Allan McCollum<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Allan McCollum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Born 1944, works in New York)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parables<\/em>, 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 casts in pigmented concrete <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diameter 200 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from Broby Modellindustri AB<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allan McCollum\u2019s Parables<\/em> consists of 12 concrete casts of stumps placed in different parts of the park. A stump of an elm tree in the Wan\u00e5s parking lot was his starting point when the work was created in 1998. At around the same time, he read about the Dutch elm disease that was ravaging the region, and McCollum was interested in the shape of the stump as well as the significance of elm trees to the southern Swedish landscape, especially along the old avenues. He cast the 12 concrete stumps and tinted them in grey, brown, and yellow hues, which he associated with disease. McCollum often uses methods of mass production to produce vast amounts of seemingly identical objects in comprehensive installations that challenge both the supremacy of the original within the art world, and the harsh distinction between the hand-made and mass-produced. He sees instead a democratic potential inmass-produced objects, because they offer the possibility of being used by more people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allan McCollum, Parables<\/em>, 1998. Photo Anders Norrsell.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Allan McCollum, Parables<\/em>, 1998. Photo Wan\u00e5s Konst.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Allan McCollum, Parables<\/em>, 1998. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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