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Jan Håfström

(Sweden, Born 1937)
Estimate
200 000 - 300 000 SEK
17 700 - 26 500 EUR
18 100 - 27 100 USD
Hammer price
190 000 SEK
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Jan Håfström
(Sweden, Born 1937)

"The Outsider"

Signed Jan Håfström and dated 2008. Acrylic on panel 100 x 100 cm.

Provenance

Galleri Brändström Stockholm.

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, "Mörkrets hjärta/Heart of darkness", 18 April - 21 May 2009.

Literature

Mårten Castenfors, Louise Fogelström, Jan Håfström, "Book of the Dead", Liljevalchs Konsthall, 2009, catalogue no 479. Illustrated on spread p. 120-121.

More information

I "The Outsider" gäckar Håfström sin publik. Den första Återkomsten från 1967 (se kat nr 288), har mycket lite gemensamt med den sentida. Visserligen står vi utanför samma fönster och utanför huset står ett träd. Men därefter slutar likheterna. Istället slungas betraktaren ut i ett icke-rum, där den svarta husväggen lika gärna kunde vara ett tomrum, och det röda landskapet en målning i målningen, en platt yta. Trädet, som i den tidigare målningen har en tjock och stabil stam är utbytt mot något mer stjälkliknande som nästan tycks växa direkt från Walkers rygg. Och vänta nu, verkar inte den där hatten, den stängda blicken och den febrigt röda bakgrunden välbekant? Håfström är inte den första konstnären som stannat upp inför Dick Bengtssons målning "Richard in Paris" från 1970. Släktskapet mellan dessa två män, Walker och Richard blir plötsligt uppenbar. De rör sig in och ut ur odefinierbara rum och oavslutade berättelser. Ibland möts de. Som här.

Artist

Ever since the 60s, Jan Håfström has been an important and clearly shining star in Swedish art and culture. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and painted "The Forest", 1968 and later "Grandmother", 1972, both of which have become classics and can be seen in the Moderna Museet's collection.

In 2001, he surprised the Swedish art public with the exhibition "Walker", at Färgfabriken in Stockholm. Out of the abstract, quiet, minimalist comes Mr. Walker and his fictitious, eventful world. Elements of childhood adventures and images depicting the disguised Mr. Walker aka the Phantom are in the paintings. This time in the form of cut-out, enlarged details. Like scenery that for once has the main role, the stories and adventures return in fragments and form a new story, about how it was and how it came to be. But Walker also moves in the same world as A. Böcklin's "Island of Death" 1880s and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" from 1902. In the darkness of romance, death is fought and the creative power of life is allowed to win and triumph. In the story about Walker, Håfström combines the abstract canvases and the moods of the objects with the stories that were decisive and strongly influenced his life. The journey of childhood comes back in stripped down and renewed form.

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