Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
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Signed Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd and dated 1963-1968 on verso. Mixed media on panel 72 x 50 cm.
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Auktionens målning är utförd och daterad 1963-1968. Det var en för konstnären mycket betydelsefull epok. I januari 1963 valde nämligen Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd att meddela omvärlden sin ”semester”. Detta skedde via en annons i New York Herald Tribune. Rubriken löd: ”CARL FREDRIK REUTERSWÄRD Closed for holidays 1963–1972”.
Men det rörde sig inte om en semester. Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd var, som konstnär betraktat, närmast ett enmans-kollektiv och han arbetade under 1960-talet oavbrutet och frenetiskt inom varierande genrer.
I höst, den 14 september öppnar Moderna Museet i Stockholm en utställning med fokus på Carl Fredrik Reuterswärds 1960-talsprojekt, med verk utförda under den den utlysta ”semestern”.
Utställningen pågår 14 september 2019-16 februari 2020.
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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1934-2016), is a Swedish painter and sculptor who lives in Switzerland. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris 1951-1952 and was a professor of painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1965-1969. He lived in Bussigny/Laussane and Paris. In 1974 he was a guest professor at Minneapolis School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Reuterswärd is known for his sculpture showing a revolver tied in a knot, called Non Violence, on display outside United Nations headquarters in New York.
One of the first established artists to use the hologram technique was Bruce Nauman who recorded a well-known series of pulsed-laser transmission holograms entitled Making Faces in 1968. His holograms were exhibited at the Castelli Gallery in New York. Another famous artist was Salvador Dalí who made holograms at McDonnell Douglas holographic labs in the USA and exhibited in New York at the Knoedler Gallery. Harriet Casdin-Silver in the USA and Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd in Sweden are two other established artists who were attracted to lasers and holography and created early holographic art pieces in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Reuterswärd’s early work, including laser and holography art pieces, is described in the book:
25 YEARS IN THE BRANCH, Benteli Verlag Berne, Switzerland, 1977. ISBN 91-7100-125-5.
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