Torsten Renqvist
€36
Keyword: 1950s-2000s biography, sculpture, painting, graphic work, Swedish artist
Author: Mailis StensmanSize: 145 x 275 mm
Pages: 318
Format: hardcover
Language: Swedish
Illustration: in colour & b/w
Book design: Mats Fredriksson
Printing: Fälth & Hässler
Publisher: Edition Apel
Pub Year: 2002
Weight: 1158 gr
ISBN: 9789189538238
Description
Article no.: 9789189538238
A biography richly illustrated
Swedish artist Torsten Renqvist started his career as a painter and graphic artist. He gained recognition and success fairly quickly and crowned that period in his life by burning the paintings. He then turned to sculpture, mainly in wood. Working with a small knife in an oldfashioned manner, he created the most extraordinary and original pieces. Inspiration came from Polish folkart, scuplture from the Middle Ages, antiquity on Crete, from Egypt and scraps from the newspapers. There is always a strong anti-heroic element present, characteristic for his art. The book has numerous illustration were this expression can be studied in situations with mythic and moral aspects.
Swedish artist Torsten Renqvist started his career as a painter and graphic artist. He gained recognition and success fairly quickly and crowned that period in his life by burning the paintings. He then turned to sculpture, mainly in wood. Working with a small knife in an oldfashioned manner, he created the most extraordinary and original pieces. Inspiration came from Polish folkart, scuplture from the Middle Ages, antiquity on Crete, from Egypt and scraps from the newspapers. There is always a strong anti-heroic element present, characteristic for his art. The book has numerous illustration were this expression can be studied in situations with mythic and moral aspects.