Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, "Imagine"
The Non-Violence Project Foundation, numbered 69/499. Length 20 cm.
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Tom Böttiger Collection, Stockholm.
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Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd began his art studies under Fernand Léger in Paris in 1951 and debuted with his first exhibition there in 1952. In 1952, he returned to Sweden and continued his studies at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm until 1955. He was appointed professor of painting at the school in 1965 and held the position until 1969, when he moved to Bussigny in Switzerland, where he lived and worked for an extended period.
Reuterswärd's most prominent and well-known artwork is the sculpture Non-Violence. The artwork depicts a revolver with a knotted barrel and was created in response to the murder of John Lennon in 1980. Reuterswärd had known John Lennon and Yoko Ono during his time in Switzerland, and Yoko asked him to create an artistic tribute to John and his vision of peace. Originally, the sculpture was placed as a memorial in Central Park, but in 1988 it was donated to the UN by the government of Luxembourg and installed in front of the UN building in New York. In Sweden, Non-Violence is also present as a public sculpture in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Täby, Borås, and Halmstad, in addition to Landskrona.
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd's works can be found in the collections of several internationally recognized museums, from the Moderna Museet in Stockholm to MOMA in New York and Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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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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