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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

"MERIT B013", 2006

Signed Dawid and dated 2006 and numbered 1/5 on verso. Pigment print, image 112 x 90 cm. 133 x 111 cm including original frame. Frame executed by the artist.

Literature

Steven Henry Madoff, "Dawid - This is a Photograph", 2015, illustrated on fullpage p. 348.
Louise Fogelström and Niclas Östlind, "Hybris/Hubris", 2008, Liljevalchs Konsthall cat no. 476, illustrated p. 36.

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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