Dan Wolgers

Dan Wolgers

(Born 1955, works in Stockholm)

All is Forgiven, 1992

Mixed media

Donation from the artist

With playfulness and provocation as his tools, Dan Wolgers has become one of Sweden’s most well-known artists. Many of his works have political implications that examine the power structures of the art world. When he was invited to Wanås in 1992, he packed his car full of leftover materials from his studio. Remains of installations, broken sculptures, sketches, and other remnants were dumped onto the grass near the road that passes Maya Lin’s earthwork. All is Forgiven is a conciliatory gesture in which unsuccessful and unfinished work is brought together in an installation that tells of the artistic process in the studio. By the fall of that year, all that remained on the ground was a few piles of fake plastic vomit; the rest had been stolen by visitors. In 2010, Wolgers donated the work to the Wanås Foundation and stated that now, the essence of the artwork is the pile’s absence.