Matts Leiderstam - The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection New York Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Olivier Renaud-Clément, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    Swedish artist Matts Leiderstam examines the way in which the dynamic among movie characters is affected by their interaction with an artwork. In the current diptych, Leiderstam drew inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo from 1958, in which the male protagonist stumbles into the female protagonist at a museum, catching her off-guard gazing at a work of art. Leiderstam staged scenes that similarly leave viewers watching a museum goer gazing at a work of art. Subsequently, he calls into question the interplay between subject and object, and the ensuing power dynamic between those who watch and those being watched, as pivoted by a work of art.

    Leiderstam holds a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden and has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Salon Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Minetta Brook at Cedar Grove, The Thomas Cole, National Historic Site, Catskill, New York; Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc, New York.

THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

271

Selbstbildnis

2002-2003
Dye destruction diptych.
Each 19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm).
Right panel signed in ink on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the frame; each with printed title, date, number 3/6, annotation 'right panel' and 'left panel', respectively, on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the frame.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $8,125

The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection

4 October 2011 6PM
New York