way, the University has extended even further the great number of significant works of art that students and staff can enjoy on a daily basis on campus.

This book is not only a presentation of Erik A. Frandsen´s decorative art, but is also a celebration of the fact that the University is home to such artistic excellence.

Frandsen has composed wholeness out of a multiplicity of works: two mosaics, executed in a centuries' old, Italian handcraft tradition; a complete wall of mirror-like steel plates with engraved flowers; a white painted aluminium relief, and a number of oil paintings.

There are works which, with their easily recognisable motifs relate to reality, but which also - each in its own way - present us with transformations of it.

In this sense art has the same goal as the University: It deals with reflecting on how the world ´hangs together´, and on how we comprehend it.