Artist, teacher and tireless experimenter with both matter and sound, Lars Fredrikson is today the object of progressive rediscovery, especially in France, where he moved at the start of the 1960s. With studies in chemistry to his name, after the war he worked in a research laboratory of the Swedish army before enrolling as a radio officer in the merchant navy. But it would be his arrival in Paris to attend the academy of art that defined his practice, characterised by a protean approach that escapes all definition. [...]
