The title of the theme may say it all. Leif Eriksson’s art cannot be framed (pun fully intended). It is the very opposite: boundary-breaking, in constant flux, provocative, accessible—or perhaps deliberately inaccessible. And of course: multifaceted, kaleidoscopic, and may we add, entertaining?
Hot Roy, the warm sausage—an unmistakable nod to pop art’s number one—has the power to lift anyone’s spirits. The lot comprising eight tabloid front pages documenting the feud between Leif Eriksson and Max Walter Svanberg tells a different story altogether. In bold headlines, they capture one of the most intriguing art events of the late 1970s. And then there is the etching depicting a fictional receipt for a painting by Andy Warhol—there you have a contemporary commentary as sharp as any.
Sharpened senses are essential when encountering Leif Eriksson the conceptual artist, publisher, and more.
