LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SEA
& THE STUBBHUVU PROJECT 3  
drawing installations, 2008

Graduated as a stage designer for theatre and film, Bo Haglund (b. 1963)‎ has worked mostly with experimental theatre productions. At the same time he has drawn comics and published several comic books, creating quite a few comic characters such as the anarchistic Bertil Gata, a simply drawn character who watches the world from aside, and Dille, a boy with an extremely big head. Bo Haglund has also worked as an illustrator for several magazines, acted as an interior and industrial designer, and drawn a caricature, Kauko, for a cultural television programme of YLE 1, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
 
In the art of drawing Bo Haglund is interested in its flexible and fast way of reflecting life and the surrounding world. His subjects often concern social codes and human behavior in turbulent situations in which something undefined has been exposed.

In the works of The Stubbhuvu Project (Stumphead Project, 2001 - 2006)‎ the cartoon character Stumphead, who lives deep in a Finnish forest, expresses heavy feelings of despair and sorrow. Stumphead is a victim, who finally becomes a scapegoat. 
 
Bo Haglund’s latest exhibition in Helsinki in 2007 gave a hint of a more optimistic world view: it was entitled Don´t Worry, We Will Find a Solution.

presentation of the artist in FRAMEWORK #9/2008 Art Magazine
by Marketta Seppälä
Director of
FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
 

Bo Haglund CV