ISBN：9783865214980  

书名/Title：奥勒·贝尔特林：现代艺术的典范｜Olle Bærtling: A Modern Classic

作者/Author：奥勒·贝尔特林｜Olle Bærtling

出版/Publisher：Steidl, 2007

装帧/Binding：平装，156 页｜Paperback, 156 pages

尺寸/Dimensions：20.8 × 27.4 × 1.8cm

语种/Language：英语｜English

内容提要：  

奥勒·贝尔特林（1911-1981）在瑞典艺术史上是一个独特的存在。他被视为战后瑞典最具影响力的艺术家之一，也是少数具有国际声望的瑞典艺术家。他参加了1959年的圣保罗双年展，在美国举办过17场个展。贝尔特林是少数几个在20世纪后半叶具有国际知名度的北欧艺术家之一。

贝尔特林一开始受到具像主义艺术家的影响，在创作中运用色彩明亮的三角形并发展出个人风格。在其后期的创作中，他的作品似乎放弃使用边框，把画面延展至无限的空间中，这也成为他独树一帜的创作风格。如今，他被视为现代主义的杰出代表。

1981年，瑞典现代博物馆与马尔默当代美术馆举办了贝尔特林的首场大型展览。在这之后，新一代的艺术家和设计师得以发现贝尔特林在创作形式与用色上的大胆实验。他那矛盾且挑衅的性格同样引发了大家对他的兴趣。1956年之前，贝尔特林的职业是一名银行家，此前他从未接受过正规的艺术教育，也厌恶当时瑞典那种媚俗的“大杂烩”艺术。

贝尔特林受到1940年代末至1950年代初在巴黎等地逐渐形成的抽象艺术的启发。1950年代中后期，他开始形成自己的绘画风格。此种开阔的、不受约束的视角不禁让人想起美国的极简主义。在此之前，这是一个曾被忽视的观看角度，但如今成为了现代博物馆在重新审视这位艺术家时采取的主要参照。

为配合2007年在瑞典现代博物馆举办的展览“现代艺术的典范”，本图录呈现了艺术家以乌托邦的视角创作的作品。

展馆简介：

瑞典现代博物馆是欧洲展示现当代艺术的主要博物馆之一。该馆收藏、保存、分享及展示20世纪初的现代艺术及1840年代至今的摄影作品。

该馆于1958年开放参观，此前从国家博物馆搬出，迁到位于斯德哥尔摩船岛上的海军演练厅旧址。博物馆现在的建筑建成于1998年，由西班牙建筑师拉斐尔·莫尼奥设计，毗邻原博物馆所在地。现代博物馆于2009年在瑞典城市马尔默亦设立当代艺术分馆。

Olle Bærtling is unique in Swedish art history. He is regarded as one of Sweden' s most seminal postwar artists, and is one of the few to have an international reputation. He exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1959, for instance, and has had 17 solo exhibitions in the USA. Olle Bærtling is one of the few Nordic artists of the second half of the 20th century who made a name for himself internationally.

Initially inspired by the Concretists, he developed a style of his own with bright colours in triangular shapes, which, in his later works, appear to move out of the frames into the infinity of space, which has become the distinguishing characteristic of Bærtling. Today he is considered a modern classic.

Olle Bærtling (1911–1981) was presented in a major show at the Malmö Konsthall and the Moderna Museetin 1981. Since then, a new generation of artists and designers has discovered his bold experiments in form and colour. His contradictory and challenging personality is also intriguing. Olle Bærtling worked as a banker until 1956, had no formal art education and hated Sweden’s twee “porridge”art.

Olle Bærtling was inspired by the new wave of non-figurative art that evolved especially in Paris in the late-1940s, early 1950s. From the second half of the 1950s and onwards, he developed his own characteristic style of painting. This expansive, unbounded vision is redolent of American minimalism, a perspective that has previously been overlooked but is now one of the key elements of Moderna Museet’s new look at this artist.

In conjunction with the exhibition A Modern Classic at Moderna Museet in 2007, the catalogue presents the artist’s works with utopian visions.