Elde Ansgar Biography
Ansgar Elde, protagonist of INTERNATIONAL SITUATIONISM, is considered the artistic heir of the COBRA group. Born in Angemanland, Sweden in 1933. He studied theater and puppetry in Braunscheing and choreographic dance in Stockholm. He carries out the most disparate jobs in various countries, including: psychiatric hospital orderly, bee keeper, maker of papier-mâché mammoths and wild boars, sculptor of ivory hand models, but he is fired for the strange disjointed shape he gives to his hands. productions. He has lived in Italy for over twenty years. In Stockholm in 1958 Aligi Sassu met a young and promising artist, Ansgar Elde, and invited him to Albissola Marina where he was Asger Jorn's guest for two years. He held his first exhibition, like Mario Porcù, in the room of the Testa bar in Albissola Marina in 1961. He thus became a member of the "revolutionary" artistic group Situationist International, founded in Imperia in 1957 and active throughout the 1960s and of which they among the best known, Jorn, Debord, Gallizio, De Jong, Trocchi. Year after year multiculturalism leads him to grow, improve, a violent expressionism pervades him in which abstractionism and surrealism converge which lead him to become one of the most visually recognizable artists today. He travels around Europe, but keeps his home in Savona, while to work he moves between the various factories in Albissola: Mazzotti, Poggi, Viglietti, and also experiments with new "adventures and research" with graphics and glass. He died in 2000, returning from Paris, where he had inaugurated his personal exhibition. Elde's works are found in the Museum of Modern Art of Havana in Cuba, in that of Silkeborg in Denmark, Halmstad in Sweden, Ixelles in Belgium, in the "House of Scandinavian Culture" in Paris.
