About Live Show, Moderna Museet
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EXPRESSEN CULTURE PAGE — Friday, May 17, 1974
Now the artist returns to retrieve his childhood's well-preserved secret
Jan Håfström sees LIVE SHOW — an exhibition that speaks to all senses, because it wants to reach the whole human being —
WE KNOW what it's like to stroll idly to an art gallery, hand in pocket, eye half-way to the next shop window. That is the situation that Live Show at Moderna Museet in 1974 challenged. The artists Sivert Lindblom, Björn Lövin and Ulrik Samuelson opened their working process to the public — they created, changed, and demolished their works during the course of the exhibition, in full view of the visitors.
It was a fundamental experiment: the process was visible, the tools were visible, the failures were visible. It was liberating and frightening at the same time. … | …
JAN HÅFSTRÖM
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