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...deplore my incapacity to find out what is going on, what life and the world are about, through the confusion of propaganda, communications, language, time . . ." Thus Oyvind Fahlstrom, whose subject is that very confusion. Now 42, Fahlstrom migrated to New York from Sweden ten years ago. His images draw on the flood of underground comic strips, random violence, hot news and crisis in which America has saturated him. But he is an original, independent of schools and styles...
Strictly speaking, the option in most of these cases is to enter into the fun-or leave it alone. But several of the objects have been so intricately put together that they offer the viewers some real variants to work with. Oyvind Fahlstrom sets up panels dotted with comic-strip and newsclip images mounted on magnetized blocks; these can be moved around at will. The result, Fahlstrom suggests, is to produce the "elusive-mysterious quality of a never-fixed work of art." Gerald Oster's Instant Self-Skiagraphy permits the viewer-participant to make shadow pictures with his hand...
...Kienholz's grotesque nude on a sewing machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...
Modern society has become so complex and automated that generals, businessmen, and even matchmakers use computers to plot the effects of variable factors on projected campaigns. Now to join such "war games," "management games" and "love games," Sweden's intense and cerebral Oyvind Fahlstrom, 38, has come along to invent something that could be called the "art game...