Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
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"Spiel mit Dr. Rorschach"
Signed CFR and signed verso Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd and dated 1962-63. Enamel and tempera, diptych 50 x 87 cm each, total 50 x 175 cm.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist.
Galerie Bel' Art, Stockholm.
Private collection, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Malmö konsthall, "Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd: 25 år i branschen", 1977-78, cat no 69.
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, "Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd", 4 May - 22 June 1986, cat no 36.
Galerie Bel' Art, Stockholm, "Le Ford...CFReflections 1952 - 1963", 1 September - 27 September, 2012, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 64-65.
More information
När Moderna museet öppnades i Stockholm 1958 var det ett museum som bjöd in besökaren på ett helt annat sätt än de gamla, traditionella museerna. Pop-konsten med happenings och performances hade slagit igenom i USA och Moderna museet blev scenen för denna nya konst med utställningar som bjöd in besökarna att aktivt delta i konsten. Det var plötsligt tillåtet att ha roligt på en utställning och att röra och ta på föremålen.
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd var en viktig del i denna banbrytande period och med sin Duchamp-inspirerade konst gjorde han, ofta med ett humoristiskt anslag, uppror mot den etablerade konsten. Debuten på legendariska galleriet Samlaren i Stockholm 1957 följdes av ett internationellt genombrott på det betydelsefulla Galerie Maeght i Paris ett tiotal år senare.
Folke Edwards skriver i "Från modernism till postmodernism", Signum, Lund, 2000 på sid 172-173. "I Reuterswärds spirituella och eleganta 60-talsmåleri är studsande biljardbollar och uppblåsta cigarrer centrala aktörer i ett alltmer sofistikerat och underfundigt rollspel, där han kombinerar kalligrafins elegans med serietidningens fräckhet."
Artist
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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