Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
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"9210", 1988
Signed Dawid and dated 1988 on verso. Edition 1/4. Vintage. Ektachrome print, image 55.5 x 44.5 cm. Frame executed by the photographer, 87 x 75.5 cm including original frame.
Provenance
Galleri Riis, Oslo.
Private collection, Oslo.
Exhibitions
Malmö Konsthall, "Dagram", 25 February - 9 April 1989.
Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient, France, 1989.
Literature
Stig Larsson and Björn Springfeldt, "Dagram", 1989, exhibition catalogue, illustrated on fullpage.
More information
From the series DAGRAM, 55 photograms done in a technique that Dawid partly invented himself. Using the old kind of Printing Out Papers that was the standard a hundred years ago but in a new way. Each are 44 x 55 cm and a limited edition to some two or three of each image. He had a major show at Malmö Konsthall with these in 1989 and an award winning catalogue was produced with a text by the famous swedish author Stig Larsson.
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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