Karl Momen

Karl Momen

Karl Momen is a Swedish architect, painter and sculptor. He was born in 1934 in the city of Mashad, Iran.

Works

Momen is the creator of the , an 87 foot sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of route I-80. Apparently, while driving along the highway to California, Momen had a vision of a tree in the desert. He financed the project himself and built it from 1982 to 1986, afterwards donating the sculpture to the state of Utah.

External links

* [http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/nexus.html International Arts & Artists - Nexus: Paintings by Karl Momen]


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