“I’m a junky for beauty. I am the one who suddenly stops on the street,staring at something I perceive as beauty.”
“I already am a sculptor; I just have not started sculpting yet”.
As a twenty year old he traveled to Italy to realize his dream. Having carved his first sculpture alone in the white marble mountains,
Here he learned the craftsmanship of working the marble from artists and marble workers. But most importantly, he got to develop his own distinctive style.
Today, Fredrik has a studio outside Amsterdam; a central starting point for an artist working on as different locations as Italy, England, Denmark and Norway.
Other links to info about Fredrik K.B.
ROYAL BRITISH SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS.
TO VIEW FREDRIK K.B.’S CV, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK TO HIS PROFILE ON LINKEDIN
M E D I A
- INTERVIEW WITH FREDRIK K.B. CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE (ENGLISH)
- “STØTTES AV ELDRE KUNSTNERE” (NORWEGIAN ONLY).
- “SKRIVER I STEIN” (NORWEGIAN ONLY).
P U B L I C A T I O N S
EDVARD MUNCH & FREDRIK K.B. – CATALOGUE FROM EXHIBITION 2010.
VENUS – PRESENTATION OF SCULPTURES EXHIBITED IN FRONT OF HOTEL CONTINENTAL, OSLO.
BROCHURE FREDRIK K.B. 2005 BY TRINE & KIM.(visit their website by following this link).
Q U O T E S
“My female sculptures consist some kind of a paradox;
although I regard the female forms in all their variations as miracles,
my female sculptures are always about the attitude more than the forms.
They are about movement. There is always a movement.
This movement is always directed upwards.”
“When I look at nature, I see that everything fills itself completely.
This, for me, is the ultimate sum of beauty.”
“What I want to give the viewer is an experience of beauty.
I want the viewer to be able to look through the forms
and find that the beauty is there; inside, as well.
Beauty is not to point out, not to describe.
One can perceive beauty in a face; a body that moves in a particular way.
But when one tries to copy this movement, the beauty vanishes.
Beauty is hidden in honesty.
Therefore I cannot plan the sculptures I make;
if I would, I believe they would be static and ugly.”
“There is life inside the stone.
Just as with people, you have to lure it out with love.
To force upon it a form you self have made up is to me the worst form of violence.”
“I am completely honest in my work.
I do not exhibit a sculpture if I have not experienced that moment
when everything else is gone and I just stand there, gazing with my mouth open
and enjoy the sight of this beauty which has revealed itself in front of me.”
“Although it is my work,
the sculptures have the amazing impact on me
of surprising me and giving me this moment of ecstasy.
They show, yes – simply materialize -
feelings, passions and beauty that I recognize from somewhere deep inside of me.
Things that I have not been able to imagine
before the stone sculpture stands there with its glittering crystals.
The sculptures show something of me that was unknown to my own conscience. “
