When a planned holography project with Dali failed to come about, Reuterswärd had himself made up as Dali and the “holographed.The letters C, F and R twirled into his moustache—standing for both “Crossreferences” and “Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd”—are meant to refer to...
CFR:s remarkable suites of portraits are also a kind of interpretations, improvisations in the musical sense. In these, Reuterswärd turns to friends in both the present and the past. They each received their own portrait as an interpretation that included references...
Reuterswärd began going to the offices of daily newspapers in Paris and hunting for cast-off press proofs, strike offs, that had no text on them. Several years later, in 1960, he removed all the letters from a text by Hemingway but retained the punctuation marks. He...
Jazz established itself emotionally in me, not to dance to but to live by. It felt more natural to approach the world with the imaginative fellowship and elastic rhythm of jazz than with the mechanically melancholic marching music I experienced as a child.Some of my...
As early as the mid-1950s when he was in Paris, Reuterswärd perceived the empty spaces between the letters in words (letter spacing or character spacing – in French, entre-lettres) or in numerical series. He called these Inter-Letters and Inter-Figures. These spaces,...
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