"Polaroidkamera i dubbel skala"
Signed Dan Wolgers and dated 1980. Painted wood 27 x 28 cm.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Dan Wolgers", 27 October 2001 - 6 January 2002.
Malmö Konstmuseum, "Dan Wolgers", 10 February - 7 April 2002.
Dan Wolgers, 1996, "120 verk 1997-1996", illustrated on p. 11.
"Dan Wolgers Verksamhet 1997-2001", 2001, illustrated on p. 10.
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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