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." / Pontus Kyander, Museum Director Sorlandets Kunstmuseum Norway


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



Spiralling #3,#4, 2008
41x55 x 2 cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Spiralling / Coil, 2007-2008)



Spiralling #1,#2, 2008
41x55 x 2 cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+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)



Puppet Master, 2005
125X136cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Quiet Battles, 2005-2006)



Ingres, 1999-2006
85X45cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Quiet Battles, 2005-2006)



Horsemen & Knights,2005
100X214cm, 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)



Spin, 2001
40X50cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 5+2AP
(Spin, 2001)



Spin, 2001
42X30cm, lambdaprint
edition 5+2AP
(Spin, 2001)



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



Reworkings, 1998
90X200cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)



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



Reworkings, 1998
80X85cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)



Reworkings, 1998
45X68cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)



Reworkings, 1998
45X68cm, cibachrome from paper collage
edition 3+2AP
(Reworkings, 1998)