Öyvind Fahlström
Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström ( pronunciation: [ ˌ œʝ ː ː vind fɑ lstɹœm ], born December 28, 1928 in São Paulo, † November 9, 1976 in Stockholm) was a Swedish artist.
Life
Fahlström - the only child of Frithjof and Karin Fahlström - visited relatives in Stockholm, when the Second World War began in 1939. So he stayed and studied 1949-1952 archeology and art history. Between 1950 and 1955 he worked as a writer, critic, translator and journalist.
In 1953 he in Florence has his first solo exhibition, in its felt-tip pen drawing in room size, the Opera ( 1952), is shown. Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben: In the same year a manifesto of concrete poetry arises manifest concretely promote poesi (1954). From 1956 to 1959 he lived in Paris. He begins to integrate clippings into his paintings. Awarded a scholarship that allowed him in 1961 to go to New York, where he moved in the old studio of Robert Rauschenberg in the Front Street 128. Jasper Johns is still living in the house. Fahlström takes 1962 to the Pop Art exhibition The New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery in the part.
In his pictorial art, he experimented with moving parts, which could be moved over the entire surface of the image. His collages and installations are composed of interwoven image and text elements of comics, images of the mass media and hard political facts.
In his last ten years he finished four films and exhibited his art in galleries and museums, especially in the U.S. and in Europe. He died of cancer.