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Dan Wolgers(Sweden, Born 1955)
"Våta kinder"
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40 000 - 50 000 SEK

"Våta kinder"

Signed Dan Wolgers and dated 2004. Object in mixed media, Height 19, width 17 cm. Specially made showcase in glass height 46, width 17, depth 17 cm.

Provenance

Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm.

Exhibitions

Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm,"Dan Wolgers", 9-30 April 2005.

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Det finns knappast någon annan svensk konstnär som rört om begreppen så mycket och så konsekvent under de senaste decennierna som Dan Wolgers. Vid sin första utställning hos Galleri Lars Bohman 1991 lät han en reklambyrå utföra alla verk och utforma utställningen i hans namn. Året efter blev han än mera känd hos allmänheten då han satte sitt eget namn och telefonnummer på omslaget till 1992 års telefonkatalog. När Wolgers sedan medverkade i grupputställningen "Se Människan" (1992–1993) på Liljevalchs konsthall fick hans "bänkstöld" stort utrymme i medierna och debattens vågor gick höga.
Just nu är han aktuell med en utställning på Spritmuseum i Stockholm tillsammans med Lena Andersson, prisbelönt författare och journalist. För "Egentligheter" har Andersson valt ut ett trettiotal verk ur Wolgers produktion, till vilka hon skrivit texter. Utställningen visas t.o.m 17 april 2017.
Dan Wolgers är utbildad vid Kungl. Konsthögskolan och har varit professor där. Han är ledamot av Konstakademien.

More about Dan Wolgers

Dan Wolgers is a Swedish sculptor, born in 1955 in Stockholm and educated at the Royal Institute of Art from 1980 to 1985 (he later became a professor there from 1995 to 1998). Wolgers is full of inspiration and humour, a playful Dadaist who experiments with and questions almost everything, and of course, he provokes and shocks the viewer. He was commissioned to design the cover for the Stockholm telephone directory, but instead of creating an image, he placed the phone number for his studio. The directory is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. When he was to participate in a group exhibition at Liljevalchs Art Hall, he requested to borrow two benches, which he immediately sold at auction. He was reported for embezzlement and was conditionally sentenced to daily fines. The verdict arrived in the post in a sealed envelope, which he signed and sold for 20,000 SEK. Wolgers puts everything to the test, even the sign "Here ends the public road." "I try to visualise and manifest different aspects of life in my art," he says. "On a personal level, I use my work to try to understand something of what I and others have to do here on earth."

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