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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
Estimate
35 000 - 40 000 SEK
3 100 - 3 540 EUR
3 170 - 3 620 USD
Hammer price
20 000 SEK
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Karin Aringer
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Karin Aringer
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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

From the series "Pinup / RRR", 2013

Signed Dawid and dated 2013 and numbered 1/5. Pigment print 156 x 111.5 cm including artist's frame.

Provenance

Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm. Acquired by the current owner in 2015.

Exhibitions

Abecita Konstmuseum, Borås, "Dawid.nu", 20 February - 4 May 2014.
Åmells Konsthandel, Stockholm, spring 2015.

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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