Natural Geotraffic
A bright blue giant chameleon with a light green tail stands near the forest at the edge of a field. It is about as high as long from the nose to the tip of the tail. The animal has been joined together by old car parts and other steel scrap. Sheet metal screens with company logos and shiny steel sheets adorn the body here and there. Diagonally below the abdomen are the remains of a car registration plate.
The eye is a black manhole cover with spokes and the feet at the bottom of the articulated steel legs are equipped with roller skates. The animal is created from sheet metal and is a bit reminiscent of the animals that can be built together in the board game Lusen.
Manhole covers for eyes and a body of old car parts, a traffic sign and other scrap metal. Niklas Fännick’s giant chameleon lets nature meet the industrial and consumer society of humans in a very tangible way.
Those manhole covers say a lot about Fännick’s artistry. He works imaginatively but isn’t chiefly interested in making his sculptures as true to nature as possible, in or reforming his material into the exact right shape. Instead, he often works by putting together different metal parts and taking inspiration from the shapes he finds in the material.
An impulse for the chameleon sculpture came when Niklas Fännick read an article in National Geographic describing how chameleons can reveal their emotions through their colours. A blue chameleon, the article said, was relaxed.
The sculpture was purchased after it was exhibited on Olaigatan during OpenArt 2017 and received its permanent location in the nature reserve in 2020.
Konstverk: Natural Geotraffic
Konstnär: Niklas Fännick
År: 2020
Material: Sheet metal, iron, scrap metal
Placering: Naturens hus
Ägare: Örebro Municipality
Konstverkets position på karta
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