Daddy Cool av Martin Magntorn

Bindning: Förlagsband

Bokförlag: Breadfield Press
ISBN: 9789198174786

Omfång: 100 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2020-09-27

Originaltitel: Daddy Cool

Förlagets information

Projektet Daddy Cool, tar upp frågor kring hur den subjektiva bilden av en närstående kan komma att omprövas i mötet med andra människors upplevelse av samma person. (I det här fallet författarens far som gick bort 2015). I en lekfull studie av identitet och förställning skapar och utprovar Magntorn skilda persona åt fadern. Han finner snapshots av fadern där han poserar som en skådespelare framför kameran. Han fotograferar och undersöker pappans personliga tillhörigheter. Och i takt med att arbetet framskrider och boken tar sin form börjar obevekligen gränsen mellan fiktion och verklighet upplösas.

Martin Magntorn, bor och arbetar som konstnär I Malmö. I sina arbeten blandar han fotografi, skulptur, text och arkivmaterial. Tematiken kretsar kring identitet, förskjutningar och förställning. Han har en Bachelor i fotografi från Högskolan för Fotografi i Göteborg och en Master i Fotografi från Akademin Valand i Göteborg. Martins verk finns representerade hos Statens Konstråd, Region Malmö och Lunds Kommuns samling. I suppose you could say, I knew my father quite well. A self-made man with a stable career. The perfect salesman, an estate agent possessing a developed psychological knowledge of how people think – and how to make people believe that they were making the decisions – when it was always him pulling the strings. I mean he was a good father, but sometimes you could get really annoyed when he was playing those same tricks at home. Near the end of his career I followed him to work in an attempt to get a more complete impression of him, photographing him and his personal belongings. We spent a lot of time together, just the two of us. Though I didn’t really know what it was I was looking for. A few years later at my father’s funeral I was struck by the realisation that his friends seemed to hold a quite different view of him. Not quite the somewhat restrained family patriarch, but more of a gambler and a joker. I found the missing pieces in my parents’ old family photo albums. In the snapshots he was more of an actor playing a role in different scenes, it’s staged photography and he is always acutely aware of the camera, even if he doesn’t always show it. I miss him, and my daughter, with whom he always seemed to have a more relaxed and playful relationship, has had a really hard time dealing with his death. However, I feel that there is still time left for me toplay about with my father, and by now I know that he would have appreciated my light-hearted remake of him. He was born in another time and had to carry on his father’s business, but I know that he had other dreams too and so I seek to show off his other talents.

Formgivare: Sofia Djerf
Fotograf: Martin Magntorn

Daddy Cool av Martin Magntorn hittar du under Särskilda fotografer inom Konst | Konsthistoria | Konstvetenskap | Arkitektur i huvudkategorin Humaniora.

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