ROGER RISBERG (Sweden, 1956-2011), “FOUR LITHOGRAPHIES”, Complete folder, containing 4 colour lithographs, signed and numbered 67/150.

blade dimensions approx. 59.5x44 cm each.

Titles:
I. DENTAL FEAR
II. MOON LISA
III. NO.4
IV. INGEMAR JOHANSSON GOTHENBERG.

ROGER RISBERG - a Swedish Expressionist II

Roger Risberg was born in Gothenburg and trained at Konstfack in Stockholm in 1979—84. He had, among others, the satirical cartoonist Lars Hillersberg as his teacher, who likened Risberg's art to that of the American artist Keith Haring. Risberg's art is primitive, lucid, and known for its powerful interpretations of both persons and animals.
He got his big break with a number of solo exhibitions in the late 80s. Risberg is represented at Nationalmuseum, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Bonniers Konsthall and Moderna Museet.
Roger Risberg died in 2011, aged 55, after a long illness.

“In the early 80s, when De Unga Vilda was on the wallpaper, Roger Risberg came out. He proved to be the only one who could claim the epithet on a Swedish basis. His paintings were strong and direct. And without theoretical restraint. He initially liked to draw as different animals, such as an eagle. Alone, exposed. A strong theme was the love, the duality, the abandonment”. Thomas Millroth (Swedish art historian, critic, art curator and author) in his book about Roger Risberg in 2011:”

Roger Risberg - is an absurdist and berserk, one of the genuinely odd freebies on the fringes of the Swedish art scene. A primitive force that seeks, in clairvoyance and confusion, the child and the barbarian under our increasingly sophisticated polity. His paintings are like rough-hewn, gallows humorous graffiti - a kind of magical or brutally clear sign of the delusion, loneliness and vulnerability of our time.(Folke Edwards (Swedish museum man, art critic and author, “Norrsken 92", Göteborgs Konsthall 1992).