Per Wizén (SWE)
www.perwizen.com


Introduction

Initially, Per Wizén’s works may look like paintings or photographs of paintings. The worlds of Quattrocento, Uccello or Baroque masters seem familiar. But the process of production is much more complex than the first glance may hint at. What we are seeing starts with minute collage work made by hand. Reproductions from art books have been cut up and laboriously pieced together to form startling new pictures. This is post-production art history. Based on close observation and analysis of the originals. This may be seductive. But there is nothing pleasantly seductive about the contents of Wizén’s images, fraught with different, violent and troubling relations as they are, and the technique he uses to achieve them resembles that of sampling in much of contemporary music.


Screaming from the Mountain
Sorlandets Koustmuseum, Norway

VOLTA NY March 2009

Review Malmö Art Museum Dec 2008

Kroppen, konst och vetenskap - National Museum of Art

Kabinetten Van De Vleeshal Nov - Dec 1999


Subterranean
(work in progress)



Per Wizén, EntrActe, Kukje Gallery, 2009
(installation view, Kukje Gallery, 2009)



Per Wizén, Reworkings, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2009
(installation view, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2009)



Per Wizén, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, 2009
(installation view, Malmö Art Museum, 2009)



Per Wizén, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, 2009
(installation view, Malmö Art Museum, 2009)



Coil, 2008
140X300cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Spiralling/Coil, 2007-2008)



Spiralling #6, 2008
45X60cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Spiralling / Coil, 2007-2008)



The Hunt, 2006
140X380cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2 AP
(Quiet Battles, 2005-2006)



Intermission, 2005
125X172cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Quiet Battles, 2005-2006)



Top, 2006
diameter 50cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Quiet Battles, 2005-2006)



Spin, 2001
123X238cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Spin, 2001)



Spin, 2001
110X88cm, silkscreen
edition 5+AP
(Spin 2001)



Reworkings, 1998
125X132cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)



Reworkings, 1998
100X171cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)



Kabinetten Van De Vleeshal, 1999
(installation view)



Kabinetten Van De Vleeshal, 1999
(installation view)