Peder Lund

Sturtevant

Sturtevant

February 27, 2020 – 20 June 2020

Beginning Thursday, February 27, Peder Lund will present works from the iconic Warhol Flowers series by the American artist Sturtevant (1924-2014). Sturtevant created one of the most interesting oeuvres in the 20th century. By following a unique approach that consisted of creating stunning repetitions of the artworks of her contemporaries and presenting them consciously as independent works, she questioned the foundations of our understanding of art and her oeuvre confronts us with a fundamental expansion to Duchamp’s concept of the readymade. The show includes 19 unique works from the 1970s that have never been shown in Scandinavia before.

While some of her repetitions were essentially exact copies of the artworks she chose to work with, others were recreated manually from memory. Through the artistry of Sturtevant’s detailed repetitions, the works she referred to can be easily identified, but their meaning was far from being a simple duplication, as her intention was never to create just a close resemblance, but to explore through her work topics such as authorship, authenticity, and originality. Issues that are of the highest relevance in our digital age, which is defined by the endless stream of images and their recombination.

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Works

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Warhol Flowers, 1970

Sturtevant