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Maria Friberg

(Sweden, Born 1966)
Estimate
100 000 - 120 000 SEK
8 940 - 10 700 EUR
9 430 - 11 300 USD
Hammer price
125 000 SEK
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Finland: Kuvasto

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Maria Friberg
(Sweden, Born 1966)

"Almost There (4)", 2000

Signed Maria Friberg and numbered AP 2/2 on verso. Cibachrome, silicone, glass 150 x 120 cm. Edition 6 + 2 AP.

Provenance

Gift from the photographer to the current owner.

Literature

Maria Friberg (e.a), "Maria Friberg", 2005, compare picture plate 11.

More information

This motif is included in the collection of Progressive Art Corporation, Ohio, USA.
It has been exhibited on several occasions in Sweden as well as internationally.

Designer

Maria Friberg was a Swedish artist who primarily worked with photography and videography. Her primary theme was masculinity, whereby she investigated the traditional male adopted roles and its properties which has through history been defined as "masculine". Since her breakthrough in the 1990s alongside other female photographers who were educated at Gothenburgs photography school, Friberg has offered his growing audience enigmatic, powerful, and imaginative staged images of men. They float tranquilly in pool water, are squeezed into cars, sometimes sleeping among white sheets, or only their lower halves are visible as they sit in suits at a table. She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references. Friberg likes to work in series, varying a motif across multiple works. Some of her most well-known series are "Still Lives" and "Almost There."

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