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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd

(Sweden, 1934-2016)
Estimate
150 000 - 175 000 SEK
13 300 - 15 500 EUR
13 900 - 16 200 USD
Hammer price
120 000 SEK
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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
(Sweden, 1934-2016)

"Caviart"

Signed CF Reuterswärd and dated 1980-82 on verso. Canvas 195 x 195 cm.

Provenance

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation.

Exhibitions

The Otis/Parson Art Institute, Los Angeles, "Caviart: the ultimate selection from the Pratt-Muller empire" March - April 1983.
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, "Caviart: the ultimate selection from the Pratt-Muller empire", March - April 1983.
Sprengel Museum Hannover, "Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd", 4 May - 22 June 1986.
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, "Stil ist Betrug oder Gesammelte Werke", 11 December 1988 - 19 February 1989.

Literature

Ashton Dore, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (editor), "Caviart : the ultimate selection from the Pratt-Muller empire", 1983, reproduced page 12.
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (editor) "Stil ist Betrug oder Gesammelte Werke", 1986, reproduced page 82.

More information

CFR arbetade med många alias ända till hjärnblödningen 1989, då han slutligen blev sig själv och ingen annan. En av höjdpunkterna i detta internationella maskspel var då han byggde upp konsthandlaren Arnold Forel Pratt-Müllers fiktiva imperium, mannen vars innovation var att lyfta konstnärers töjbara signaturer från själva konstverket och sälja dem separat, ju större desto dyrbarare. CFR genomförde en rad anmärkningsvärda projekt med denne Pratt Müller på konstscener världen över. Ett av de mest anmärkningsvärda var den stora utställningen Caviart, som bland annat visades på Otis Art Institute 1983. Den glassiga katalogen, ”Caviart The Ultimate Selection from the Pratt-Muller Empire”, är ironiskt prydd med högar av sedlar och mynt. Ett av huvudverken på utställningen avbildas på sidan 12 i katalogen, nämligen just titelmålningen Caviart.
CFRs lek med roller, denna kritik av konsthandeln och detta granskande av konstens kärna är en parallell till vännen Marcel Duchamps verk. Detta underströks också med adekvata ordvitsar av Caviart-katalogens essäist, Dore Asthon, den namnkunniga amerikanska kritikern och konstprofessorn på Cooper Union: ”Somewhere in all of these conondrum there is a line, surprisingly a straight line, leading always to the Pascal-like universe whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. Or whose circumference everywhere and center nowhere. Like Duchamp, his standard stoppage is an oeuvre dard..”
CFRs Caviart är en central målning från en av hans mest internationellt uppmärksammade och betydande perioder och projekt.
Thomas Millroth

Designer

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016), is a Swedish painter and sculptor who lives in Switzerland. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris 1951-1952 and was a professor of painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1965-1969. He lived in Bussigny/Laussane and Paris. In 1974 he was a guest professor at Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reuterswärd is known for his sculpture showing a revolver tied in a knot, called Non Violence, on display outside United Nations headquarters in New York.

One of the first established artists to use the hologram technique was Bruce Nauman who recorded a well-known series of pulsed-laser transmission holograms entitled Making Faces in 1968. His holograms were exhibited at the Castelli Gallery in New York. Another famous artist was Salvador Dalí who made holograms at McDonnell Douglas holographic labs in the USA and exhibited in New York at the Knoedler Gallery. Harriet Casdin-Silver in the USA and Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd in Sweden are two other established artists who were attracted to lasers and holography and created early holographic art pieces in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Reuterswärd’s early work, including laser and holography art pieces, is described in the book:

25 YEARS IN THE BRANCH, Benteli Verlag Berne, Switzerland, 1977. ISBN 91-7100-125-5.

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