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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
Estimate
8 000 - 10 000 SEK
715 - 894 EUR
755 - 943 USD
Hammer price
7 000 SEK
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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

"Negativ # 17, 1978"

Signed Dawid and dated 1978 on verso. Also with stamp Copyright Björn Dawidsson on verso. Vintage. Toned polychrome, image 33 x 24 cm.

Literature

Jan-Gunnar Sjölin and Galleri Camera Obscura, "Dawid", 1980, reproduced.

More information

Dawid har ända sedan 1970-och 80-talet återkommande visat prov på konstnärlig experimentlusta och en önskan att i det slutliga fotografiet/objektet inkludera den skapande processen. Genom att i sina fotogram och kemigram återknyta till det experimentella avantgardet på 1910- och 20-talen, med konstnärer som exempelvis László Mholy-Nagy, har Dawid skapat sig ett stabilt fundament för sina omfattande ljusexperiment. Han nöjer sig inte med att se fotot som en reproduktionsmetod av ljusfenomen eller en visuell anteckning över förfluten tid. Han vill direkt påverka den process som sker när det vita ljuset omformas till svärta på fotopappret.

Designer

Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.

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