Spun Carbon-Fiber Chaise Lounge
2003 · Spun carbon fiber
87.7 × 85.1 × 210.2 cm (34 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 82 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Mathias Bengtsson
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Geometric Abstraction
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Mathias Bengtsson is a Danish artist working in glass and resin to create sculptural forms that merge material chemistry with geometric abstraction. His practice investigates how industrial casting techniques yield surfaces that read simultaneously as organic and crystalline. The work inhabits a space between craft precision and geological formation, where the artist's intervention in material behavior becomes a generative force rather than a controlling one.
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Museum of Modern Art
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