WITH COAL LIFE IS BORN

Gustav Kraitz, born in 1926 in Hungary, would have turned one hundred this year.

When the war ended in Hungary, he was taken into Soviet captivity and placed in labor camp. For four years he was forced to work in coal mines.

In 1956 he came to Sweden. He then, from old drawings, began experimenting with building Chinese kilns from the Sung dynasty.

Coal, which earlier in his life had been something brutal and destructive, Gustav turned into something that created new life and beauty.

The exhibition shows coal that is used in the oven and sculptures that, in the high heat, have received unique and fantastic glazes.