Maria Friberg
"Still lives #3", 2004
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 1/5 AP on verso. Edition 25 + 5 AP. C-Print, mounted on wood, image 48 x 69.8 cm (depth 4 cm).
Provenance
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC, "Still lives", 2005 (another example exhibited).
Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut,
"Library" curator: Barry Rosenberg, 2005 (another example exhibited).
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Galleri 3, "Boys Are Us”, 2008 (another example exhibited).
Abecita Konstmuseum, Borås, "Friberg & Hünttner", 2008-09 (another example exhibited).
Literature
Friberg (e.a), "Maria Friberg", 2008, illustrated pl. 23.
Friberg (e.a), "Maria Friberg", 2005, illustrated pl. 2.
More information
Likt ett foster i moderlivet ligger mannen tryggt omsluten bland ålderdomliga böcker i skinnband. Maria Friberg har sedan nittiotalet bjudit sin allt större publik på gåtfulla, starka och befriande fantasifulla bilder där hon iscensatt män. "Still lives #3" visades första gången på Armory show i New York, en av världens största konstmässor med tusentals objekt till salu och gallerister och samlare i rörelse under ett par hektiska dagar. Det året hände något oväntat. Maria var där med sin gallerist och plötsligt fann de sig omgivna och uppvaktade av horder av besökare som kommit för att se just det här fotografiet som de hört folk prata om: Mannen, böckerna. Bilden återgavs i New York Times och till och med chefen för MoMA var en av många som inte ville mista chansen att samtala med konstnären bakom de omtalade fotografiet.
Designer
Maria Friberg was a Swedish artist who primarily worked with photography and videography. Her primary theme was masculinity, whereby she investigated the traditional male adopted roles and its properties which has through history been defined as "masculine". Since her breakthrough in the 1990s alongside other female photographers who were educated at Gothenburgs photography school, Friberg has offered his growing audience enigmatic, powerful, and imaginative staged images of men. They float tranquilly in pool water, are squeezed into cars, sometimes sleeping among white sheets, or only their lower halves are visible as they sit in suits at a table. She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references. Friberg likes to work in series, varying a motif across multiple works. Some of her most well-known series are "Still Lives" and "Almost There."
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