Outside the rules of the game, Paul Freisler from Lund wants, through his art, to turn both outward and inward — toward ideas and concepts. At Galerie S:t Petri in Lund, he is now showing — for the first time in Sweden — “Crazy Design”, setting it in contrast, for example, to industrial design, where everything is arranged and regulated according to specific rules and norms. In Crazy Design, there is always room for coincidence.

Paul Freisler uses various things, ideas, and materials. The aspect of time has great significance in his creation. He has now existed for 37 years, and in this exhibition, one can take part in a small fragment of his life, his time. Then it is over. And life, time, continues to pulse until he once again pauses for a moment, looks around, and lets us as spectators share in his observations.

Since 1971, Paul Freisler has been greatly interested in science. To some extent, he laughs at the way scientific disciplines operate. The regularity, the professional routine, quantification — none of this is for him. His artistic activity is a form of research where thoughts and experiences from earlier decades are not rejected, but rather where developments based on them are considered most important. This happens best when we place ourselves outside the rules of the game, observing what takes place in time and trying to do something else with it.

Paul Freisler wants us to look at familiar things in a different way. Thus, for example, he paints pink dots on sugar cubes and places them in peculiar settings, which signals that sugar can be perceived in several ways — not just as something we use for our coffee or tea.

Paul Freisler always has an exhibition in his pocket — he is always ready to step outside and see things anew, to rethink, to question the rules, the norms, the usual ways of behaving.

On Saturday, March 8 at 6 p.m., he will perform an action in the gallery.

The exhibition runs from March 5 to 17, 1980, and is open weekdays 15:00–20:00, Saturdays and Sundays 13:00–17:00.