The specialist's choice – Karin Aringer shares her favourites from the upcoming sale
Specialist's choice Karin Aringer
We have spoken to Karin Aringer, Specialist in Photography and Contemporary Art, about this spring's upcoming auction Contemporary Art & Design.. She took the opportunity to highlight some of her personal favourites at this spring's auction.
What can we look forward to in this spring's Contemporary Art & Design sale?
- The photo department includes both Swedish contemporary conceptual photography and classic documentary photography. The photo department also includes iconic portraits of musicians and actors, and monumental colour images by Swedish and international photographers. We are also delighted to present many high-quality works by international photographers, such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ralph Gibson and Joel-Peter Witkin. These photographers are not often represented at auctions in Sweden.
Feel free to look through our web catalogue and do not hesitate to stop by for a viewing. You can also email or call me, and we will find a time that suits you. Welcome!
When is the exhibition and auction?
Exhibition: 21 – 25 April, Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm.
Open: Mon–Fri 11 AM – 6 PM, Sat–Sun, 11 AM–5 PM.
Auction: 26 April, Arsenalsgatan 2, Stockholm.
David Hockney "David Graves looking at Bayswater", 1982”
With his collages, David Hockney wants to examine the truthfulness of photography; can a photograph reproduce the actual image of a human being? Nowadays, most people would answer no to that question, but what if you instead take lots of pictures simultaneously of the same motif. Could the true picture emerge?
In 2017, I was in London and visited Tate Britain's extensive Hockney exhibition. I remember how I stayed extra long in the exhibition hall dedicated to the artist's photographic collages, fascinated by how clever and skilfully he had composed and assembled them.
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Lars Tunbjörk,"Midsommar i Rättvik"
Lars Tunbjörk had his big break-through in 1993, in Sweden and internationally, with the book "Landet utom sig". The images are melancholic, surreal and sometimes a little absurd. Tunbjörk's pictures of small-town life are fantastic – if you grew up in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s, you might recognize these motifs.
Robert Mapplethorpe, ”Thomas, 1986”
Sune Jonsson, "Kammarinteriör hos änkefru Jenny Edström, Hökmark, Lövånger socken", 1960
Contacts our Specialists
Stockholm
Louise Wrede
Specialist Contemporary Art, Private Sales
+46 (0)739 40 08 19
Stockholm
Karin Aringer
Specialist Photographs and Contemporary Art
+46 (0)702 63 70 57
Stockholm
Björn Extergren
Head of Consignment and Sales Department, Fine Art. Specialist Antique Furniture, Decorative Arts and Asian Ceramics
+46 (0)706 40 28 61