End of Public Road III

Sculptor Dan Wolgers studied at the Konsthögskolan (1980–1985) before eventually becoming a teacher there a decade later. Wolgers is an artist (meta)critical of the art scene and market but who airs his grievances with whimsical and poetic humour, placing him in the wake of Dadaist figures and practices. Sometimes controversial and on the wrong side of the law (in 1993, in the context of an exhibition he was commissioned to take part in, Wolgers ‘borrowed’ benches from the Liljevalch Art Hall to later sell them at auction and was subsequently fined and sentenced to a misdemeanour). The sculptor’s work is ultimately highly human in its conception and reach. The End of Public Road series (five works in total) encapsulate the communal ambition of his body of work. Indeed, these traffic signs are rather rare in his native Sweden where a vast majority of roads are public. By documenting where these public spaces ‘end’, he reminds the viewer of all they share.