Per Olof Ultvedt
Per Olof Ultvedt (born July 5, 1927 in Kemi , Finland ; † November 21, 2006 in Lidingö , Sweden ) was a Finnish painter , graphic artist , set designer and sculptor who lived and worked in Stockholm , Sweden. He is considered an important representative of kinetic art in Scandinavia .
life and work
Per Olof Jörgensen Hungerholt Ultvedt was born in Kemi, Finland. In 1938 his family moved to Sweden. From 1945 he studied at the Konsthögskola (Royal Art Academy) and at the School of Decorative Arts in Stockholm. From 1947 to 1948 he visited Paris . In 1950 he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleri-Noa Noa in Copenhagen .
At this time he created drawings , watercolors and etchings . In 1954 he designed the equipment for the ballet Spiralen , the Konserthus in Stockholm. From the mid-1950s he turned to collage , creating welded metal sculptures and wood and paper assemblages .
In the early 1960s he made a series of flat relief works with open layers of wood. During the same period a number of installations were made with wood, wire and other materials, loosely assembled and often also containing moving parts as kinetic objects . Ultvedt also created small assemblages with moving parts using electric motors.
In 1962 he worked with Robert Rauschenberg , Jean Tinguely , Niki de Saint Phalle and Daniel Spoerri on the installation for the exhibition Dylaby (dynamic labyrinth) at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , for which a labyrinth of rooms was built, each with assemblages and others Items equipped.
In 1966, together with Saint Phalle and Tinguely, he installed the huge installation You: A Cathedral for an exhibition in the “Modern Museum” in Stockholm. This consisted of a large, seated 25-meter-long female sculpture, between whose legs the viewer could reach a number of interconnected rooms, a bar and a cinema. After the exhibition, the installation was destroyed.
In 1968 he took part in the 4th documenta in Kassel with 5 kinetic objects . In 1972 he started drawing satirical cartoons . He traveled to France in 1973 and Mexico in 1977 . In the 1980s he created a number of public sculptures, such as the Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1984) for the Folkets Park in Motala .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
- Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ad Petersen: Dylaby, a dynamic labyrinth in the Stedelijk Museum 1962 . In: Bernd Klüser, Katharina Hegewisch (Hrsg.): The art of the exhibition. A documentation of thirty exemplary art exhibitions of this century , p. 156
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ultvedt, Per Olof |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ultvedt, Per Olof Jörgensen Hungerholt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish kinetic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kemi , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 2006 |
| Place of death | Lidingö , Sweden |