Björn Lövin: The Surrounding Reality
€29
Keyword: 1970s-80s, spatial installation, conceptual art, living environments, sculpture, Swedish artist
Swedish title: Den omgivande verkligheten Size: 240 x 320 mm Pages: 264 Format: softcover Language: English, Swedish Illustration: 31 colour Editor: Matilda Olof-Ors Co-editor: Peo Olsson Foreword: Gitte Ørskou Text: Matilda Olof-Ors, Rasmus Fleischer, Maria Lind, Helena Mattsson Book design: Jonas Williamsson Printing: Narayana Press Publisher: Null & Void, Moderna Museet Pub Year: 2022 Weight: 1083 gr ISBN 13: 9789189312029 (Moderna Museet 9789198457230)Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2022
Description
Article no.: 9789189312029
Fictional living spaces and archeological findings.
This conceptually intriguing exhibition catalogue reprints 3 early catalogues: Moderna Museet from 1971; Centre Pompidou from 1981; and Kulturhuset/Malmö konsthall from 1988.
Björn Lövin (1937-2009) was the first Swedish artist to have a solo exhibition at Centre Pompidiou and was an exceptional figure in the Swedish art scene.
From the publisher:
With carefully chosen details, Björn Lövin (1937–2009) built up fictional worlds, like film sets, which the visitor could step into. In the exhibition “The Surrounding Reality”, three of Björn Lövin’s extensive environments have been reconstructed. Then, as now, visitors can enter the environments themselves and experience the art from up close.
None of Björn Lövin’s original environments were preserved after being presented in their respective exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The environments that you can see now in the exhibition are thus reconstructions interpreting and recreating a similar atmosphere as when the works were first shown.
Extensive and winding research has been required to build up the environments. Based on photographs, films and archive documents, objects have been identified. These are the three environments that you will encounter in the exhibition (and book): Consumer in Infinity and “Mr P’s hoard”, L’image and C – The struggle for reality.
Björn Lövin expanded traditional art genres and was one of the first Swedish artists in the late 1960s to make spatial installations, called environments at the time.
He was born in Falun in 1937. In his youth Lövin studied in Barcelona, later attending Stockholm University and Uppsala University to study education, scientific theory and information technology.
Despite his lack of formal artistic training, he had his first exhibition at Galleri Mejan in 1970, an early version of the more comprehensive exhibition Consumer in Infinity and “Mr P’s Hoard” – two environments by Björn Lövin that was presented at Moderna Museet the following year.