Öyvind Fahlström

Öyvind Fahlström (São Paulo 1928 - Stockholm 1976) was sent from Brazil to Stockholm in 1939 and stayed, working after the war as a writer, critic and journalist. In 1953 he wrote a manifesto for concrete poetry. He moved to Paris in 1956 and then to New York, where games and popular culture entered his paintings, and in 1966 he took part in 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. For Swedish Radio he made Birds in Sweden (1963) and the serial The Holy Torsten Nilsson (1966).