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Helene Billgren

(Sweden, Born 1952)
Estimate
40 000 - 50 000 SEK
3 580 - 4 470 EUR
3 630 - 4 540 USD
Hammer price
30 000 SEK
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Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

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Helene Billgren
(Sweden, Born 1952)

"Dam ser" (Lady sees)

Signed Helene Billgren and dated -09 on verso. Acrylic on MDF board 85 x 74 cm.

Provenance

SAK:s lottery 2009, prize no 2.

Exhibitions

Angelika Knäpper, Stockholm, "Helene Billgren - Free Kitten", 19 March - 19 April 2009.

More information

2012 är något av Helene Billgrens år. SAK:s generösa publikation ”The End” har precis utkommit med ett rikt text- och bildmaterial om konstnären som efter ett framförallt idogt tecknande tog upp penslarna och fann en ny värld i oljemåleriets tecken. Billgrens återkomst till måleriet skedde med en smått bejublad galleriutställning 2009, där den aktuella målningen ingick, och målningarna verkade tillkomna både med lätthet och med självklarhet. Billgrens konstnärskap är just nu föremål för en generös utställning på Borås Konstmuseum.

Designer

Helene Billgren is a Swedish visual artist. She studied at Valand Academy of Fine Arts from 1982 up until 1987. The female form, the home, and family stand at the forefront of Helene’s artistic career. She is highly interested in the mundaneness of the everyday, transforming it in her art in her own way. Old items and clothing are repurposed to create something new, occupying a new purpose in her artistic universe.
In recent years, Billgren has become interested in collecting patters, decorative objects, and symbols which we surround ourselves with during the Christmas season. She alters, embroiders, writes, draws and puts together these elements in a bizarre and unusual way, transforming their function, and in turn their appearance and meanings.

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