KNUT HENRIK HENRIKSEN INAUGURATES FULL CIRCLE

A PERMANENT SCULPTURE AT
KING'S CROSS ST. PANCRAS UNDERGROUND STATION,
LONDON, UK

UNVEILING: FRIDAY, 27 NOVEMBER / 18:00

On 27 November Knut Henrik Henriksen's Full Circle will be unveiled at King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station, London, UK, in the new Northern Line, concourse under the initiative of Art on the Underground. Henriksen's Full Circle is the first permanent artwork to be installed in London Underground since the 1980s. It has been comissened for King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station as an integral part of the station upgrade. Full Circle is also the first in a series of major new permanent commissions to be commissioned by Art on the Underground alongside its award-winning programme of temporary art projects.

Situated at the end of the new concourse for the Northern Line, Full Circle reflects the distinctive architectural style and language of the renovated station. It proposes a reconsideration of this site and a re-examination of the way the station has been constructed for the contemporary city it serves.

The starting point for Full Circle is the circular end wall of the concourse tunnel. The circle is truncated where it meets the floor, implying a 'lost' segment of circle beneath. This segment has been 'reinstated', conceptually exhumed by Henriksen, and mounted as an integral architectural feature of the end wall. It is fabricated by the station upgrade contractor, from the same materials (shot-peened stainless steel) as the wall itself, discreet, yet elegantly obvious.

About the Artist

Kunt Henrik Henriksen (born in 1970 in Oslo) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Sommer & Kohl, Berlin and Hollybush Gardens, London. His public commissions are on view at Ahus, Akershus regional hospital outside Oslo, and Høgskolen in Vestfold, both in Norway. He has contributed his work to 'Beyond These Walls' at South London Gallery, London, in July 2009 and to 'Poor Thing' at Kunsthalle Basel, 2007, 'Various Small Fires', at the Royal College of Art, London, 2007, 'All That Is Solid Melts into Air', FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France, 2006 and 'Berlin North', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, 2004.

Knut Henrik Henriksen's project Full Circle is supported with a grant from OCA's International Support Programme. It is additionally supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London.

For more information on Full Circle and Art on the Underground, please visit www.tfl.gov.uk/art