"Spel I"
Executed circa 2000. Signed Reuterswärd. Gouache on paper 90 x 63 cm.
Not examined out of frame.
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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd was a central figure in Sweden and internationally in the post-war art world. Only Öyvind Fahlström is likely to have had greater significance on the global art scene, and no other Swede is likely to have had the same international network as Reuterswärd, ranging from artists such as Marcel Duchamp to critics such as Susan Sonntag. Well-read, intellectual, articulate, playful and a virtuoso, he created his most important works in the early 1960s. Games, indicative of the harvests of chance, cigars in various formats and the use of repetitive pictorial elements predating Warhol were all created between 1961 and 1963. He then took his famous vacation, during which he experimented with lasers over the rooftops of Paris. Later, he created various identities; Kilroy and the art dealer Pratt-Müller are just some of the better-known examples.
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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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