"Sagesmän (dubbla män)"
Signed DW and dated -07 and numbered 2/3. Bronze. Length ca 195, width ca 66, depth ca 53 cm.
Provenance
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, "Cire Perdue", 17 November - 21 December 2007
Literature
Lars Bohman Gallery, "Cire Perdue", 2007, illustrated on fullpage.
More information
Det finns knappast någon annan svensk konstnär som rört om begreppen så mycket och så konsekvent under de senaste decennierna som Dan Wolgers. Han fick sitt stora genombrott med utställningen ”Se människan” (1992-1993) på Liljevalchs konsthall. 2007 presenterade Wolgers sina första bronsskulpturer på Galleri Lars Bohman med utställningen ”Cire Perdue” där "Sagesmän (dubbla män)" fanns med. Cire perdue är ett fackuttryck för en bronsgjutningsmetod, där gjutformen förstörs i gjutningsprocessen. Kanske har du sett den största av hans skulpturer på Stadsgårdskajen i Stockholm? I samband med invigningen av konsthallen Fotografiska våren 2010 placerades Wolgers 2,75 meter höga bronsfigur ”Torso” utanför huvudentrén.
Att kommunicera och tala med sin omgivning är Wolgers stora drivkraft. Precis som hans övriga objekt verkar "Sagesmän (dubbla män)" på betraktaren med överraskningens plötslighet, den väcker både lust och häpnad. En skulptur som är en bänk som är ett gott sällskap.
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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