Dan Wolgers

Dan Wolgers is one of Sweden's most esteemed and controversial contemporary artists. His art is filled with playfulness, humour and absurd ideas, and his ability to distort, provoke and retort leave few viewers untouched. In a well-timed and an unerring way he presents a fresh view of life and of seemingly meaningless objects.
The auction’s “Fångsten” is a unique painted bronze sculpture made in 2005 and exhibited at Lars Bohman Gallery the same year. The fishing boy in bronze is an enlarged bric-a-brac porcelain figure, with a head from another figure in his basket. The effect is dreamlike, is the scene actually taking place in the boy’s head?

Later on, in 2007, another three bronze sculptures with the same expression were made, they were named “Nattfiskare”. One of them is placed at the famous Stockholm restaurant Taverna Brillo. Of this sculpture, Dan Wolgers said:
‘Eternally on the way, with eyes closed, the figure stops a blow and rests his mighty head in a basket on his back. He wears his head, but is himself carried, by a thread thin as a dream, or a dream thin as a thread. It is the bronze sculpture Nattfiskare who fishes dreams for the entire area. A colossal catch in the basket.’