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LINDSTROM Bengt
Bengt Lindström was born in Storsjö Kapell (Sweden) in 1925. He follows a
teaching to the School of art of Isaac Grünewald (pupil of Matisse) of
Stockholm and at the fine arts of Copenhagen (1944-1946), in the Art
Institute of Chicago, then workshops Fernand Leger (1947) and Andre Lhote in
Paris (1947-1948).
exhibitions:
Bengt Lindström, rétrospective, musée Galleria, Paris, 1973;
Bengt Lindström, musée de Carcassonne, 1984;
Bengt Lindström, Sept comtes pour Melchior, La Différence, Paris, 1985;
Bengt Lindström, musée de Salamanque, 1986;
Bengt Lindström, musée de Vesoul, 1992;
S. A. Stahlnacke, Lindström, Sjodells Forlag, Linköping, 1992;
A. Bonfand, Bengt Lindström, La Différence, Paris, 1993.
cobra:
Cobra (CO-penhagen, BR-ussels, A-msterdam), created in 1948, came into
existence in the wake of the work of Jorn and Dotremont. Soon a manifesto
entitled “La Cause était entendue”, The Case Was Heard, was made public.
Many artists joined in. Their commonality of views was apparent in the organ
of the movement subtitled « Lien souple des groupes expérimentaux.» After
being initially preoccupied with political issues, these artists gradually
gave free rein to their imagination and their sense of poetry. They refused
materialism and took their inspiration in particular from children’s
drawings, the artistic expressions of mentally handicapped people and
primitive art. They searched for meaning that lay behind the shape of things
and found in their own experience the foundation of an essential truth
present in everyone and therefore universal. Painting and writing being
expressions of a similar essential gesture, these activities are connected.
Thus Cobra encouraged exchange, encounters, collaborative work. It
foreshadowed the protest movements of the 1960’s.
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