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Matts Leiderstam
(b. 1956 Gothenburg, Sweden) earned a M.A. in Fine Arts at the
University of Gothenburg and a Ph.D. at Lund University. Selected
Exhibitions include Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Malmö Art
Museum; Wilfried Lentz gallery, Rotterdam, Holland; Belgrad Museum
of Contemporary Art at Belgrad, Serbia; Art Basel at Switzerland;
Royal Academy Schools Gallery at London; Museo Patio Herreriano at
Valladolid, Spain; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art at Arizona
and Centre for Contemporary Art at Montreal, USA. Matts
Leiderstam’s public art works include "View", made for
Watershed Hudson River Art Project, North Dock, Bear Mountain State
Park and Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, produced by Minetta Brook,
New York and "View," produced by National Public Art Council and
The City of Malmö, Västra Hamnen, Scaniaplatsen,
Malmö. Matts Leiderstam is represented by Andrehn-Schiptjenko
Gallery, Stockholm, Wilfried Lentz Gallery,
Rotterdam, Gallery Kalhama
& Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki. He lives and works in
Stockholm.
Matt Leiderstam often works with photography to create and
influence the viewer’s perception of landscape. For
example, “View (Papago Park)” includes a series of
eight of the same landscape photographed through a set of colored
filters from the 18th Century viewing instrument when seeing
landscape, the so-called Claude Glasses.
His prints “He and She” were included in his solo
exhibition Blick at Kalhama & Piippo, 2008 and in his
retrospective Seen from Here, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf,
2010. The works included in his exhibition inspired viewers
to rethink works of art in relation to ownership, time and place,
and original vs. a copy. He often includes historical
elements of art, which allows for his position as an artist to
shift to a viewer. The man and woman depicted in “He
and She” are not defined so that questions concerning the
relationship between the two figures can be addressed by the
viewer. This work was made after two portraits painted by
Isaac Walklin in the 1750s.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
