Öyvind Fahlström is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Öyvind Fahlström as Swedish multimedia artist (1928-1976).
Öyvind Fahlström was born at São Paulo in 1928. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He trained at Stockholm University.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as poet, writer and painter.
His recorded movement is fluxus.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Brazil shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Öyvind Fahlström died in 1976, aged 48. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Fluxus
