An armchair, part of the installation 'And so it goes', ed. 14, Källemo, Sweden, post 1992.
Nickel plated, casted aluminium in the shape of a Swedish rococo armchair, seat height 42 cm, height 95 cm.
Shallow wear.
The model exhibited at the worldsfair, Expo 92 in Sevilla, 1992.
The chair is "a portrait of a Rococo chair" according to Källemo. The original rococo chair that served as the model was found at Wretman's grandmother Inga Tidblad.
Reportedly only ca 7 examples made.
Wretman, Fredrik b. 1953 in Stockholm. Swedish sculptor and photographer. Educated at Gerleborgsskolan 1972-1975, ABF's art school 1975-1976, Royal Institute of Art 1980-1985, where he has also been a teacher, as well as at Konstfack. He is one of Sweden's most established artists with a multitude of public art commissions behind him. Early on, he utilised the video camera to find new expressions and representations. In the project "Goatrans" at Färgfabriken, he performed himself in 32 orange-coloured editions "as Buddha" alongside water projections from the Pacific Ocean, the Amazon, and the Trondheim Fjord. For more than twenty years, he has worked with water installations, often in large formats where he reshapes the surroundings into infinity. Reflections and mirror images on water surfaces evoke surprising illusions and ambiguities. Fredrik Wretman has a remarkable ability to find new paths within art.
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