Sven Inge

Sven Inge (born Sven Inge Höglund, later Sven Inge Demonér 1995–2006) (February 22, 1935 – November 20, 2008) was a Swedish painter and pop artist who came to some prominence in the late 1960s, doing performed visual experiments with digital technology as an art medium, and coloristic paintings.

Sven Inge was born in Umeå in 1935 and grew up in a small village in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. From early age, he was interested in drawing and became involved in experimental art after moving to Sundsvall, and later to Stockholm by the early 1960s. At the end of the 1960s, he gained notability co-producing, together with Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck, the experimental video performances ''Monument'' (1968) and ''Space in the Brain'' (1969), both made for Swedish Television. In addition to video performances, he worked with static images of science fiction and space travel, as well as a number of monumental paintings. In 1972, Inge created the photographic work ''Glesbygdare'', and in 1973 ''Kronotorpare''. Later, Inge worked with computerized holographic art, notably ''The Expanded Cube'', which was performed at art galleries in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan. In the 1970s, he also worked with laser installations. As of the late 1970s, Sven Inge focused more on paintings, as well as a number of transparent three-dimensional images on acryl glass. Sven Inge was married to Rut Astrid Häggström in 1961–1967; they had no children. Inge worked and lived in Stockholm until his death in 2008.

Name

Sven Inge was born Sven Inge Höglund. He was the son of Karl Hellström and Gulli Maria Höglund. In 1995, he changed his surname to Demonér (sometimes incorrectly cited as De Monér). However, as an artist, he was best known as Sven Inge; hence in 2006, he registered his middle name Inge as his new surname.Sven Inge's changes of names were noted by his former artist colleague and later antagonist Ture Sjölander who yet said that "Sven Inge de Monér has been changing his name less times than the number of times he has changed his Resume through the last 4 decades. An cultural cross dresser assisted by a postman who become a doctor on corrupted information. The doctor's hat should be taken off and replaced with pointed cap and Sven Inge's masquerade game would come to an end!" i
Newstime 2009
Ture Sjölander's artistic website.

References

External links

''Monument''
Video Animation (1967), by the Ture Sjölander, Lars Weck, and Sven Inge.
''Space in the Brain''
Video Animation (1969), by Ture Sjölander, and Sven Inge.

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1935 births
2008 deaths
People from Umeå
20th-century Swedish painters
Swedish male painters
21st-century Swedish painters
Swedish contemporary artists
20th-century Swedish male artists
21st-century Swedish male artists
Artists from Västerbotten County