Öyvind Fahlström
Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström ( pronunciation : [ ˌœʝːvind ˈfɑːlstɹœm ], born December 28, 1928 in São Paulo , † November 9, 1976 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish artist.
Life
Fahlström - Frithjof and Karin Fahlström's only child - was visiting relatives in Stockholm when World War II began in 1939. So he stayed and studied archeology and art history between 1949 and 1952 . Between 1950 and 1955 he worked as a writer, critic, translator and journalist.
In 1953 he had his first solo exhibition in Florence , in which his room-sized felt pen drawing, Opera (1952), was shown. In the same year a manifesto of concrete poetry was created : Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben: manifest för konet poesi (1954). From 1956 to 1959 he lived in Paris. He begins to integrate newspaper clippings into his paintings. A scholarship enabled him to move to New York in 1961 , where he moved into Robert Rauschenberg's old studio at 128 Front Street. Jasper Johns still lives in the house. In 1962 Fahlström took part in the pop art exhibition The New Realists at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
In his visual art he experimented with moving parts that could be moved over the entire surface of the picture. His collages and installations consist of interwoven image and text elements from comics, image material from the mass media and hard political facts.
In the last ten years of his life he finished four films and exhibited his art in galleries and museums, mostly in the USA and Europe. He died of cancer.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1966: XXXIII. Venice Biennale
- 1968: 4th documenta , Kassel
- 1973: Section of World Map - A Puzzle , Sidney Janis Gallery , New York
- 1974: Solo exhibition, Godula Buchholz Gallery, Munich
- 1975: Let's mix all feelings together Gianfranco Baruchello , Erró , Oyvind Fahlström & Klaus Liebig , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich, Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , Louisiana Museum , Humlebeak
- 1977: documenta 6
- 1997: documenta X
- 1995: Variable structures in the Society for Contemporary Art , Bremen
- 2011: Öyvind Fahlström , Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
- 2012/13: Simon Evans & Öyvind Fahlström. First we make the rules, then we break the rules , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
literature
- Jürgen Claus: "The time picture: Öyvind Fahlström", in: Jürgen Claus: "Art today", Rowohlt Verlag, 1965
Web links
- Official website
- Literature by and about Öyvind Fahlström in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Öyvind Fahlström in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from February 20, 2011, page 53: Shaking and stirring I: Art against the CIA
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fahlström, Öyvind |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fahlström, Öyvind Axel Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1976 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |