Art + Sport = Love. SNETT/INÅT/BAKÅT (Terrorboll) by Klas Barbrosson

”I sidefooted the three enormous footballs, felt like Beckham — three long passes, and they ended up moving from Gamla Ullevi to a stair outside an educational institution, to Plattan, and onto a massive elevator roof ouside a bar in Stockholm.

The title of the work refers to a football-related expression and to them being balls, but of course, the interpretation is as open as a perfectly placed cross-field pass – one you kill on the foot or cushion on the chest.

I've been longing for this triptych. it is one thousand two hundred kilos of love." //Klas Barbrosson

Klas Barbrosson (b. 1976) is an artist known to question the concept of culture and to challenge the widely held belief that there are two types of culture: one more important type catering to the highly educated upper middle class, and one superficial, wear and tear-culture for the young and uneducated.

Barbrosson is perhaps most well-known for the way in which he works with sports-culture in his art, and especially the world of 1990s football. One of his public artworks in Gothenburg is a pizza called En Nolla - First Klas, available to order at Odins Pizzeria.

The exhibition is made in collaboration with Stockholm Konst, Svenska Brasserier (and Café Klotet) and the SSE Sport Initiative.

Photos by Mikael Olsson.