Erik Dietmann - Artist Info

About Erik Dietmann

  • Biography

    Erik Dietman was born in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1937. He studied at the academy of fine arts in Malmo but lived in France for most of his life; he died in Paris in 2002.

    He was a member of the Fluxus movement, that asserted the intrinsic artistic quality of even the most common gesture, and claimed artistic creation should not be confined to the field of aesthetics, but be part of the flow of daily life, on behalf of an absolute conception of art.

    Among the exhibits he took part in, let us mention: "Eloge de l'envie", Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice (2001); "L'ami de personne", a monumental sculpture at the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris (2000); "För fulla glas", National Museum, Stockholm (1999...

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