Lot 271: MATTS LEIDERSTAM

THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION
Selbstbildnis
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.

Each 19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm).

Dye destruction diptych.

2002-2003

Olivier Renaud-Clément, New York

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.