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Jan Håfström

(Sweden, Born 1937)
Jan Håfström
(Sweden, Born 1937)

JAN HÅFSTRÖM, mixed media and collage on wooden panel, 1986, signed.

Untitled. 80 x 138 cm.

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Målare, tecknare och skulptör. Efter studier i filosofi och konsthistoria tog han en fil kand-exame 1962. Utbildade sig på Kungliga Konsthögskolan mellan 1963-68 och debuterade som konstnär redan 1966.
Idag intar Jan Håfström en central position i den svenska konstvärlden. Han har representerat Sverige fyra gånger på Venedigbiennalen, mer än någon annan svensk konstnär. Tre gånger ensam och en gång med Ola Billgren. Han fick 2001 Carnegie Art Awards förstapris och 2007 också Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfonds Stora stipendium.
Jan Håfström kan beskrivas som nyrealist likväl som en av samtidskonstens stora romantiker. Inspirerad av popkonstens framväxt började han under 1960-talet kontextförflytta objekt. Han har sedan växlat mellan figurativt och abstrakt måleri. I hans konstnärskap finns ofta en länk till hans egen barndom och kampen mellan det goda och det onda. Han är en sublim uttolkare av de mänskligaste av känslor där jakten på en förlorad oskuld aldrig tycks ta slut.
Representerad vid bland annat Moderna Museet i Stockholm, Nationalmuseum i Stockholm, Kalmar konstmuseum och Norrköpings konstmuseum.

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Ever since the 60s, Jan Håfström has been an important and clearly shining star in Swedish art and culture. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and painted "The Forest", 1968 and later "Grandmother", 1972, both of which have become classics and can be seen in the Moderna Museet's collection.

In 2001, he surprised the Swedish art public with the exhibition "Walker", at Färgfabriken in Stockholm. Out of the abstract, quiet, minimalist comes Mr. Walker and his fictitious, eventful world. Elements of childhood adventures and images depicting the disguised Mr. Walker aka the Phantom are in the paintings. This time in the form of cut-out, enlarged details. Like scenery that for once has the main role, the stories and adventures return in fragments and form a new story, about how it was and how it came to be. But Walker also moves in the same world as A. Böcklin's "Island of Death" 1880s and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" from 1902. In the darkness of romance, death is fought and the creative power of life is allowed to win and triumph. In the story about Walker, Håfström combines the abstract canvases and the moods of the objects with the stories that were decisive and strongly influenced his life. The journey of childhood comes back in stripped down and renewed form.

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