FAHLSTRÖM, ÖYVIND. Another Space for Painting

Spain 2001. Moving from one place to another, constantly changing countries, and always living as a foreigner allows for an expressiveness that is inaccessible to the sedentary artist. In that same sense, travelling to marginalized or peripheral territories can result in an unusual representation of the world. This is the situation of Fahlström, who used his work as a keen cartographic instrument to measure the planet’s geopolitical and geopoetic changes. His work–ranging from islands to peninsulas to continents and planetary maps–take the language of the comic to its logical conclusion. Through that the artist filters historical and cultural information, encouraging an ethical understanding of how the globe is represented. His maps are an amorphous representation of the flow of power over territory., English, Year2001, Illust. B/W117, Illust. Color164, ISBN 8495273497, Code 6230. RETAIL ONLY.. Softbound, In Pristine Condition, Location of Exhibition: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2001, Baltic Centre for for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom, 2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, 2000, et al, Bibl. Cat. of exh. Bio. Pages 368, Size 10 1/2”x 9 1/2”