Maria Friberg
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"Blown Out", 1999
Signed Maria Friberg and numbered 1/1 on verso. C-print, laminate, mounted on aluminum 120 x 170 cm.
Saleroom notice
The estimate stated in the printed catalogue is incorrect. Correct estimate is 40-60.000 SEK.
Provenance
Gift from the artist to the current owner.
Literature
Galleri Charlotte Lund (e.a), "Maria Friberg - Trinity", 2000, illustrated on spread pl. 7.
Maria Friberg, "Maria Friberg", 2005, illustrated on fullpage pl. 5.
More information
A version of this motif also exists in size 180 x 250 cm in edition of 6 + 2 AP. It can be found in the following collections:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Malmö Konstmueum, Malmö.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich.
Martin Z Margulies, Miami.
Anthony and Heather Podesta, Washington D.C.
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 She works with staged photography and often uses art historical references.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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