Curt Asker

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Curt Asker (born January 27, 1930 in Stockholm , † November 11, 2015 in Lacoste ) was a Swedish artist. He lived and worked in Lacoste, Paris and Brantevik . Since 1981 he was a member of the Royal Academy of Liberal Arts Sweden. He became known for his floating sculptures. With the help of wind, kites and shadows, he created imaginary spaces that were supposed to record the relationship between art and the visible, really appearing world.

Curt Asker in Berlin 1998

Life

In 1950 he began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Until 1955 he had Ragnar Sandberg as a teacher. In May 1955 he met Birgitta Nygren, who became his first wife in 1956. Their daughter Anna was born on April 16, 1957. Their son Pär was born on September 5, 1963. In 1973 he traveled with his wife through the USA and Mexico . Asker describes the impressions in Mexico as the violent collision between the metaphysical and the social perceptions of life . From 1978 on he lived with the artist Lotti Ringström . 1979 birth of their son Jakob, they married in 1986 in Paris. Since 1981 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Liberal Arts in Sweden. In 1984 he took part in the Venice Biennale . In 1987 he was awarded the Prinz Eugen Medal . In 2014 he received the Sandbergs Akvarell Prize. In 2001 he was awarded the Egron Lundgren Prize.

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Curt Asker recently called his work Blickstille . In addition to his floating kite, he also attached spring steel signs with a defined distance in front of the wall, so that a play of light and shadow is created. Central to his work is the question of how ephemeral the creative process is. What dissolves appears with him again in a new form. The empty spaces , which are reformulated by its structures, are in constant transformation. The emptiness and weightlessness revealed to Curt Asker what he called the back of the horizon .

Asker created color etchings for eleven poems by Wallace Stevens in 1992.

Asker's works are exhibited at

On behalf of the Center Georges Pompidou , François Vié created a film documentary about Curt Asker.

At the beginning of 2019, a retrospective of Curt Asker's work took place at the Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm in collaboration with Galleri Gunnar Olsson .

Quote

" Spinoza's understanding of time as a statue of an unchangeable eternity is a good starting point for me to try to work with the moment."

- Curt Asker :

literature

  • Curt Asker, Edition Hylteberger 1989, Sweden
  • Curt Asker, 'reConnaitre', réserve géologique de haute-provence, musée départmental digne, 2000

Web links

Commons : Curt Asker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://news.cision.com/se/konstakademien/r/konstakademien-delar-ut-beloningar--priser-och-stipendier,c9545308
  4. ↑ http://www.galeriekondeyne.de/curtasker.php
  5. ↑ http://www.artchapelles.com/internet/index.php?numrubrique=490&numsousrubrique=489
  6. ↑ http://www.paris-art.com/curt-asker/
  7. ↑ http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2015-12-04/curt-asker
  8. ↑ https://www.myguide2stockholm.com/curt-asker-retrospective/
  9. ^ Nietzsche . In: SA . Retrieved November 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Asker, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2015
Place of death Lacoste