Swedish sculptors

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Per Hasselberg, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Lars Vilks, Willem Boy, Louise Lidströmer, Carl Milles, Claes Oldenburg, Astri Bergman Taube, Willy Gordon, Eric Grate, Folke Heybroek, Calle Örnemark, Richard Winkler, Bror Hjorth, Liss Eriksson, Carl Eldh, Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Christian Pontus Andersson, Erik Lindberg, Johan Tobias Sergel, Waldemar Sjölander, Cécilia Rodhe, Edvin Öhrström, Johan Niclas Byström, Karl Momen, Haaken Gulleson, Hans Hedberg, Stig Blomberg, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Peter Mandl, Clarence Blum, John Börjeson, Ida Göthilda Nilsson, Carl Eneas Sjöstrand. Excerpt: Ann-Sofi Sidén is a contemporarty Swedish artist. She had a traditional education and started out as a painter. She expanded into other mediums, including video, film, performance and sculpture. Sidén's styles and themes do not fit easy categorization. Sidén's early works center around a fictional character of her own creation, the "Queen of Mud", or QM. The creature is played by Sidén herself, and is the subject of numerous videos and films made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The most notable aspects of the character are that she is naked, and covered in mud. In 1989, she walked into NK, an exclusive department store in central Stockholm. The character went to the perfume counter and tested a Chanel perfume before being escorted out of the building by security guards The visit made headlines in the Stockholm evening press, and led to an appearance by Sidén on a Swedish TV talk show, Ikväll, hosted by Robert Aschberg. QM's public appearances continued in 1992 when she walked through the Stockholm Art Fair in Sollentuna. Under the guise of looking for art to take with her on her imminent space travel, she engaged several gallerists in conversation, one of whom assisted in reapplying mud on her body. The QM character played a lead-role in Sidén's 1997 film, QM, I Think I Call Her QM. The QM character has her own museum, The QM Museum (2004), Sidén's 17-channel mixed media installation. The digital archive that is part of the museum contains over 4,000 articles, consisting of drawings, poems, videos, films, and sculptures that Sidén made about QM during her career. In 1994, Sidén participated in a group show in New York called, "Who has enlarged this hole?" It took place on West 9th Street, in the brownstone where a retired psychiatrist named Alice E. Fabian had died some years before. Sidén deals with Fabian's remnants, including written journals, audio journals, books, polaroids, and strange markings on the walls. Fabian lived the last 20 years of her life alone,