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| | Tobias Berger: TEXT ON THE ARTIST |
 | | Der sechste Schornstein, (The Sixth Chimney), thus the title of the 15 meter high work of art by Jan Svenungsson, will be erected in the spring of 2001 outside Emsdetten, a good kilometer from the village Hembergen, on the edge of a small forest. |
 | | Individual chimney stacks in landscape settings, however, are disturbing and ultimately lead to a new definition of the building structure and its surroundings. |
 | | Through the provocative, irrational act of building the chimney stack, Jan Svenungsson can on the one hand ring in a new age of non-smoking chimney stacks and, at the same time, articulate a poetic criticism of a society which is becoming more and more rational. |
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