Pierre Olofsson

Pierre Olofsson was born in 1921 in Paris. He grew up in Stockholm and studied at Otte Sköld's painting school and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Pierre Olofsson belonged to the group "Men of 1947", which included artists such as Lage Lindell, Olle Bonniér and Lennart Rodhe.

Pierre Olofsson was the only one of the ”Men of 1947” who remained a pure concretist. He was influenced by the German-Swiss artist Paul Klee, whose art led Pierre Olofsson to geometric painting, based on rotating circles.

Through the alternating placement of ovals and spirals - in front and also behind - Pierre Olofsson achieved illusions of movement and at the same time used color contrasts to create spatial effects.

Throughout his career, Pierre Olofsson pursued the concretists' idea that art should be coordinated with our daily lives.
Pierre Olofsson's visual art consists of active surfaces and organic parts, in other words separate sections that together form force fields and also add both movement and energy to the artwork.

Pierre Olofsson's motifs and paintings create a swirling rhythm and rotation. It arises when the life-giving shapes of the colors come into contact with each other.
Pierre Olofsson's artwork and motif world have been described as abstract poetry, with a brittle and sometimes scenic fantasy architecture.

Quote from the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter:
"Pierre Olofsson's art adventure began in 1947 with the exhibition "Young Art" at Färg och Form.
Two years later he appeared at Galerie Blanche together with Arne Jones, Karl Axel Pehrson and Olle Bonniér under the collective name "Konkret".
He then devoted himself a lot to public art under the open sky: murals and sculptures.
Not least in the large decorations, water came to play an important role, also made visible in the water-playing sculptures in the garden on Ljusterö."
From Dagens Nyheter, 30/3 1996