Bengt Lindström

BENGT LINDSTRÖM (Sweden, 1925 - 2008).
Untitled, 1992.
Lithograph on 270 gr Velin d'Arches paper, copy 197/250.
Signed and justified by hand.
Size: 90 x 63 cm.
Bengt Lindström trained in Stockholm with I. Grünewald, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1947 he settled in Paris, where he completed his studies with A. Lothe and F. Léger, as well as experimenting with a wide variety of procedures and techniques. Recognised from the 1950s onwards, Lindström held solo exhibitions in cities such as Paris, London, Brussels, Cincinnati and Tokyo. Most of his work is currently held by the Krimaro Foundation, as well as the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Carnegie Institute, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Gallery in London, among many others.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and silkscreen prints chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The artists chosen are defined by diverse movements and pictorial trends, from the conceptualism and minimalism of "Ben" Vautier, the lyrical abstraction of Yasse Tabuchi, the painting of Oleg Tselkov which concentrates on the human figure, intensely expressive and treated through forceful forms and intense colours that seek to reflect the conflicts and violence of his time, and finally the work of André Arabis, clearly abstract and geometric.