Dr. Schweitzer's Last Mission
Artist
Öyvind Fahlström
(Sverige, 1928 - 1976)
Alternate Title
- Dr Schweitzers sista uppdrag
Date1964-1966
MediumTempera on 8 metal boxes, 10 cut-out boards, 50 magnetized metal and vinyl cut-outs
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1970
Object NumberNMSK 2093
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkIn Öyvind Fahlström’s largest installation, information and images are arranged like game board pieces, blending fact, fiction and irrationality into an open-ended narrative. He called his installation an "image organ" and exhibited it in different ways. The title refers to the German-French theologian Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. Schweitzer, famous for his missionary work in medicine in Africa, but was part of the colonial project and its structure despite his outspoken resistance. In this work, Fahlström was addressing the corrupt, patriarchal order.
Selected exhibition history
Öyvind Fahlström (1979)
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Manipulera världen (den 21 oktober 2017 - den 21 januari 2018)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Pop Art & Nouveau Réalisme, ur samlingarna (1991-1992)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues
Öyvind Fahlström : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [13 oktober - 9 december 1979]Manipulate The World : Connecting Öyvind Fahlström : [Moderna Museet 22/10 2017-17/5 2018]
Pop Art & Nouveau realisme : ur Moderna Museets samlingar : Moderna Museet 26.12.1991 - 09.08.1992Manipulera världen : Aktivera Öyvind Fahlström : [Moderna Museet 22/10 2017-17/5 2018]
Bibliography
Modern Painting, del 4, Tokyo 1963, ill. s 39.
Öyvind Fahlström, Minneslista (till "Dr. Schwitzers sista uppdrag"), Kerberos, Tryckeri AB Björkmans Eftr, Stockholm 1964.
XXXIII Biennale di Venezia, Öyvind Fahlström, Svezia,Venedig 1966, ill.
Öyvind Fahlström, Texts and Manifestos by Torsten Ekbom, Robert Rauchenberg and Öyvind Fahlström,Malmö 1967, ill.
Öyvind Fahlström, Katalogen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1976, s 45.
Öyvind Fahlström, Moderna Museets utställningskatalog nr 164, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1979, s 46-50, 113, 115.
Öyvind Fahlström,Stockholm: Moderna Museet & Paris: Centre Pompidou 1980, ill. s 46-50.
Öyvind Fahlström, New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1982, ill. s 58-63+67.
Öyvind Fahlström, Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez 1992, ill.(färg) nr 23 + helbild + detaljer.
Avery-Fahlström, Sharon (red.), Öyvind Fahlström, die installationen, the installations, Ostfildern 1995, ill.(färg) s 39+detaljer s 32-33, 37, 43-45.
Moderna Museet Stockholm zu Gast in Bonn, 1996.
Öyvind Fahlström, Öyvind Fahlström: Another Space for Painting, Barcelona, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2001, s 191, 192, 200, 201, 203, 205, 209.
Öyvind Fahlström, Manipulera världen: Aktivera Öyvind Fahlström, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 2017, ill.(färg) s 1, 54–63, 120.