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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
Estimate
20 000 - 25 000 SEK
1 770 - 2 210 EUR
1 870 - 2 340 USD
Hammer price
17 000 SEK
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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

"K1D9338", 2007

Signed Dawid and dated 2007 and numbered 3/5 on verso. Pigment print, image 60 x 75 cm. Including artist's frame 82 x 97.5 cm.

Literature

Björn Dawidsson and Art and Theory Publishing and Steven Henry Madoff, "Dawid", 2015, illustrated on p. 359.

More information

From the series "Toys".

Artist

Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.

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