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Carl Boutard – Degrowth

Past exhibition
16 January - 15 February 2025
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Carl Boutard – Degrowth

We are pleased to present Carl Boutard’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Degrowth, featuring sculpture and drawing. 

 

Working with sculpture, the relationship between man and nature is central to Carl Boutard’s practice. Collecting fragments and objects from nature as part of his daily practice, Boutard creates a starting point for the sculptures to come. The new exhibition also includes pastel drawings, highlighting Boutard’s foundation in modernism and a masterful feel for colour, shape and form, all abstracted from nature. 

 

In the exhibition room, bronze sculptures in the shape of crumpled leaves are positioned on the floor. Leaves from the Tree of Life have fallen to the ground. A changed shape is visible as part of life’s cycle and assumes a new curled shape. Different from the blooming spiring state as it originally began.

 

In Degrowth, downscaling and sharing of resources are the focus. The concept refers to a movement critical of our society’s drive for growth, depleting our resources both from an ecological perspective and as individuals. In his new project, Boutard questions the constant strive towards growth in general and the consequences it may have on a collective level as well as on a personal one. 

 

Carl Boutard (b. 1975 in Kiruna) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy and a BFA from Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik. In addition, he has studied architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2017, he has been based in Reykjavik where he holds a position as associate professor and program director at the BA Department of Visual Arts at IUA, the Iceland University of the Arts. 

 

Boutard’s work has been shown at Reykjavik Art Museum, Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Malmö Art Museum, Lunds Konsthall, Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Artipelag, Bonniers Konsthall and Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris. Boutard was awarded the ISCP scholarship in New York in 2015, and his public commissions include sites in Stockholm, Uppsala, Karlstad, Lund and Heidenheim, Germany. He is represented in the collections at Malmö Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art in Lund and the National Gallery of Iceland.

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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
  • Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
    Installation view, Carl Boutard, Degrowth, 2025, Cecilia Hillström Gallery. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger.
Works
  • Carl Boutard, Degrowth no. 2, 2025
    Carl Boutard, Degrowth no. 2, 2025
  • Carl Boutard, Degrowth no. 1, 2025
    Carl Boutard, Degrowth no. 1, 2025
  • Carl Boutard, Afternoon Sun no. 2, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Afternoon Sun no. 2, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Pool, 2025
    Carl Boutard, Pool, 2025
  • Carl Boutard, Dispossessed, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Dispossessed, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Follow the Money, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Follow the Money, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 3, 2024
    Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 3, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 4, 2024
    Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 4, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 4, 2025
    Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 4, 2025
  • Carl Boutard, Afternoon Sun no. 1, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Afternoon Sun no. 1, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Decoupling, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Decoupling, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Leaf, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Leaf, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 1, 2024
    Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 1, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 2, 2024
    Carl Boutard, New Life New Goals no. 2, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Spectrum, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Spectrum, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, The Potential in Contraction, 2024
    Carl Boutard, The Potential in Contraction, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 1, 2024
    Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 1, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 2, 2024
    Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 2, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 3, 2024
    Carl Boutard, The Shape of Things to Come no. 3, 2024
  • Carl Boutard, Tree, 2024
    Carl Boutard, Tree, 2024
Video
Press
  • 'Färgen smittar den sovande metallen' – Carl Boutard, 'Degrowth'

    Susanna Slöör, Omkonst, 28 January 2025
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  • Bland rymdstoft och bronslöv - Carl Boutard, 'Degrowth'

    SvD Perfect Guide, 18 January 2025
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