Aria Dean on Designing an Anti-Monument
Aria Dean on Designing an Anti-Monument The artist on her proposed New Monument for Franksa Tomten and how minimalist aesthetics speak to the complex history of Sweden’s colonial past Travis Diehl Your proposed New Monument for Franksa Tomten (2020) would replace a pair of granite and bronze sculptures commemorating Swedish settlers in Delaware – a 1938 monument designed by Carl Milles that sits in Fort Christina Park in Wilmington and a replica installed 20 years later at Stenpiren in Gothenburg – with seven-metre-high monoliths of solid iron. To these would be add...
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