Title: †33T
Artist: Trygve Luktvasslimo
Medium: Diabase
Dimensions: 200 cm x 60 cm x 4 cm
Year: 2011
The title †33T alludes to the numerological connection between the artist recently turning 33 and that being the same age that Jesus died. The engraving on the sculpture translated from Swedish to English reads, “Lead me to a rock that is higher than I." The quote comes from Psalm 61:2 of the New Testament. It also happens to be a favorite of Oprah Winfrey.
This piece was a component of a dense and ambitious project where Luktvasslimo set the occult within navel-gazing pop culture in relation to individual perceptions. †33T materializes the baseless argument and exposes us and the artist to the rhetoric of mainstream media and contemporary culture. The project takes on an authoritarian voice which speaks in tongues; echoes in the chapel; exhausts, motivates and questions the freedom of choice of the common man. Luktvasslimo reevaluates trivial gestures and articulates them with monumental reverberations. †33T exists in the space between manipulation and proselytization.
Trygve Luktvasslimo is a Norwegian artist who lives and works in both Lisbon and Mosjøen, Norway. His work is inspired by the relationship between the metaphysics of the domestic sphere and religious processes along with traditional beliefs, associating social phenomena with the mythic qualities of pop culture and religion. For further information about the artist please visit his website: www.trygveluktvasslimo.com
This sculpture holds the honor of being the first work in the collection of the sculpture park.
