Ulla Wiggen
€52
Keyword: 1963-2021, painting, circuitry, electronics, bodies, portraits, Swedish artist
Size: 260 x 300 mm Pages: 108 Format: hardcover Language: English Illustration: in colour Text: Daniel Birnbaum, Peter Cornell, Sabeth Buchmann, Caleb Considine Book design: Kölqvist Printing: Narayana Press Publisher: Art & Theory Pub Year: 2022 Weight: 1129 gr ISBN 13: 9789198672060Description
Article no.: 9789198672060
From electronic insides to the insides of the human body: Here's the first monograph on her extraordinary paintings.
Wiggen is part of "The Milk of Dreams" at La Biennale di Venezia 2022
From the publisher:
In the early 1960s Ulla Wiggen created a suite of paintings depicting electronic components and computers. She explored this world when hardly anyone could predict how digital technology would revolutionize our daily lives. Shortly afterwards, in 1966, she participated in the performances 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering in New York assisting Öyvind Fahlström, whose radical view of art was of great importance to her. In 1969 she started painting humans and then made a series of portraits. She also became a licensed psychotherapist, which became her primary vocation until 2013 when she after an exhibition with her previous paintings at the Moderna Museet decided to resumed her artistry after 30 years break. Since then, her focus on the computer's interior and the human exterior has shifted to the inside of the human body and increasingly focused on the brain and iris of the eye
Wiggen is part of "The Milk of Dreams" at La Biennale di Venezia 2022
From the publisher:
In the early 1960s Ulla Wiggen created a suite of paintings depicting electronic components and computers. She explored this world when hardly anyone could predict how digital technology would revolutionize our daily lives. Shortly afterwards, in 1966, she participated in the performances 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering in New York assisting Öyvind Fahlström, whose radical view of art was of great importance to her. In 1969 she started painting humans and then made a series of portraits. She also became a licensed psychotherapist, which became her primary vocation until 2013 when she after an exhibition with her previous paintings at the Moderna Museet decided to resumed her artistry after 30 years break. Since then, her focus on the computer's interior and the human exterior has shifted to the inside of the human body and increasingly focused on the brain and iris of the eye
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