Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd – a pioneer in art holograms
A lecture by Professor Hans Bjelkhagen
5.11 2019
Stockholm
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd – a pioneer in art holograms
A lecture by Professor Hans Bjelkhagen
Date: Tuesday 5 November, 2019
Time: at 17.30
Place: in the Cinema, floor 2
Language: Swedish
Price: free admission to the lecture. Entrance ticket needed to see the Kilroy-hologram in the exhibition.
Booking: no pre-booking
The collaboration between Hans Bjelkhagen and Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
Professor Hans Bjelkhagen collaborated with Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on most of his hologram art in the 1970s. The Moderna Museet collection includes the work “Whole Kilroy” from 1978, one of Reuterswärd’s holograms to be featured in the exhibition “Alias: CFR”. But Reuterswärd’s fascination for lasers and holograms began much earlier.
In the mid-1960s, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd contacted Professor Nils Abramson at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which had a holography lab. In 1972, Hans Bjelkhagen began collaborating with Reuterswärd on creating holograms. Reuterswärd and Bjelkhagen worked together on most of his holograms in the 1970s. These pieces were produced at the holographic laboratories at the KTH – Royal Institute of Technology or at Lasergruppen Holovision AB.
Reuterswärd featured at the Museum of Holography in New York
In 1978, Reuterswärd was the first European artist to be featured in a solo show at the Museum of Holography in New York. Reuterswärd concentrated almost exclusively on “Kilroy” for ten years. This work of art consists of nine parts, which were reproduced as holograms in 1977.
One of Reuterswärd’s major, and possibly most interesting, holograms is “Smoke without Fire or Gateaux Gabor” from 1978, in which he incorporated an interference pattern as a substantial part of the work. Other examples of his holograms are “Finger Language” from 1973, which consists of four reflection holograms that can be shown with ordinary white light, and the reflection hologram “Kilroy’s Heart” from 1975.
In “Cross Reference”, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd poses as Salvador Dalí. Reuterswärd’s moustache was shaped into the letters C and R, the initials of both the work and his first and last names.
On the exhibition: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd – Alias: CFR