Rotsäck I – III (Root sack I – III) (2022) is a series of wall-mounted sculptures of hawthorn.
Artist Lage Pergon lives close to trees. Combining his artistic career with working as an arborist has long influenced his artistic practice both in terms of technique and material as well as thematically. Caring for trees and the knowledge of their importance for the earth’s climate is what characterise Pergon’s work.
Lage Pergon began working with woodcuts in the 1970s, with trees as his main motif and concept, which he continued to develop when he transitioned from printmaking to sculpture.
Artist biography Lage Pergon
Sculptor Lage Pergon was born in Malmö in 1965 and lives in Svedala. He received his artistic training at the Pratt Institute in New York at the end of the 1980s, followed by studies at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway. Pergon has also worked with
pruning. He has produced public artworks for the Forensic Psychiatric Centre, Trelleborg (2016) and the HSB Housing Cooperative Akvamarinen, Kalkbrottet in Limhamn (2015).
