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Hatt & Mössfabrik

by Dick Bengtsson

Artist Dick Bengtsson (Sverige, 1936 - 1989)

Alternate Title

Hat & Cap Factory

Date1969

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsVarje del: 122 x 91 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 1970

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberNM 6280:A-B

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkIn Dick Bengtsson's world there is no escape. He leads our gaze to the cracks in the façade of the modern project and the ideological underbelly of rationalist society. In the diptych Hat and Wig Factory, everything is reversed, with one exception - the swastika remains the same, regardless of world order. The surface treatment is characteristic for Dick Bengtsson's works. To achieve and "old master" and intentionally dirty patina, he often coated his paintings with layer upon layer of varnish, before treating them harshly with a hot iron, as though to eliminate every trace of brush strokes. The resulting painting was flat as an oil print, with a dream-like detachment, like a picture of a picture.
Selected exhibition history Dick Bengtsson (1983) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Alternative Suédois / Svenskt Alternativ. D. Bengtsson, O. Billgren, L. Englund, John-e Franzén, L. Hillersberg, E. Höste, O. Kåks, U. Samuelson (1970) Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseet/Bergens Biledgalleri, Bergen Ingens hundar: svensk konst genom hundra år (1998) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Efterkrigstid till 1970-tal Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Dick Bengtsson : varken det ena eller det andra : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26.3-15.5 1983Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]Svenskt alternativ : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 1970

Works by the artist