Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
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"#9771", 1991
Signed Dawid and dated 91 verso. Vintage. Unique. Chemigraph, image 30 x 24 cm. Including the artist's frame 62 x 52 cm.
Provenance
Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm.
Private Collection, Sweden.
Exhibitions
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Hybris", 12 April – 25 May 2008.
Galleri Skarstedt, Stockholm, "Dawid", 28 February - 28 March 2004.
Literature
Dawid and Steven Henry Madoff, "Dawid: This is a Photograph", 2015, illustrated on full page p. 256.
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Hybris", 2008, illustrated.
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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