Galleri Lars Bohman is pleased to present Dan Wolgers' eighth exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition consists of a selection of sculptures from the exhibition 'Ahem' at Gothenburg Art Museum in November 2004 - January 2005.
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 seemingly meaningless objects.
The central theme of this exhibition is mathematics and Fibonnaci's sequence of numbers. This is how the exhibtion was presented Gothenburg:
One can presume that Dan Wolgers regards art as parallel to mathematics; everything already exists but has to be discovered in order to be reflected upon. Wolgers once said that one cannot become a real artist until one has dealt with Fibonacci's numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and so on, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The number sequence was discovered by the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci during the 13th century and has since then been the companion of artists in our time. In nature the sequence has been discovered in many places such as the way in which flowers or shells grow. Perhaps Fibonacci's sequence of numbers also stears an artists' growth, each artistic action being the sum of the two preceding actions.
Dan Wolgers was born 1955 in Stockholm where he lives and works. He attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1980-85) where he was also professor from 1995-98. Dan Wolgers has exhibited widely both in Sweden and abroad. He is represented at, among others, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Gothenburg Art Museum; Malmö, Konstmuseum; Fredric Roos Nordic Collection, Malmö; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; and Kiasma, Helsinki and the National Public Art Council of Sweden.
For further information, please contact the gallery.
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 seemingly meaningless objects.
The central theme of this exhibition is mathematics and Fibonnaci's sequence of numbers. This is how the exhibtion was presented Gothenburg:
One can presume that Dan Wolgers regards art as parallel to mathematics; everything already exists but has to be discovered in order to be reflected upon. Wolgers once said that one cannot become a real artist until one has dealt with Fibonacci's numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and so on, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The number sequence was discovered by the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci during the 13th century and has since then been the companion of artists in our time. In nature the sequence has been discovered in many places such as the way in which flowers or shells grow. Perhaps Fibonacci's sequence of numbers also stears an artists' growth, each artistic action being the sum of the two preceding actions.
Dan Wolgers was born 1955 in Stockholm where he lives and works. He attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm (1980-85) where he was also professor from 1995-98. Dan Wolgers has exhibited widely both in Sweden and abroad. He is represented at, among others, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Gothenburg Art Museum; Malmö, Konstmuseum; Fredric Roos Nordic Collection, Malmö; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; and Kiasma, Helsinki and the National Public Art Council of Sweden.
For further information, please contact the gallery.