De Zweedse kunstenaar, dichter en schrijver Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström werd geboren op 28 december 1928 in São Paulo. Zie ook alle tags voor Öyvind Fahlström op dit blog.
Uit: The Invisible Painting, 1960
“Nowadays it is possible to make and reproduce exact copies of paintings, in which even the tactile values, to some extent, are retained. Taking the opposite approach: to create directly on a “negative” which is then reproduced is another matter, but this is something that must be possible to achieve in an age when neither push-button annihilation nor moon rockets are inconceivable.

World Map, 1972
The painting as a handmade object would then decrease in significance compared with a painting that exists for the experience, the content, that it can convey. Become invisible painting.
The way to this kind of painting, which offers the most powerful and deepest possible experience, does not, of course, lie at our feet. For me, it is largely a question of making the painting take hold as a never completely graspable, definable, but riveting vehicle of content. To differentiate visual material, creating a pictorial world as richly and clearly conceived as the art of the past but a world that is without either conventional form or meaning.”

Öyvind Fahlström (28 december 1928 – 9 november 1976)









