Simen Johan
I don't have reliable information about a specific artwork titled "Simen Johan" by the artist Simen Johan in my training data. Simen Johan is a Norwegian photographer known for his conceptual and often digitally manipulated color photographs that explore themes of nature, surrealism, and the uncanny, typically produced as chromogenic prints. If you could provide additional details about this particular work such as the year it was created or its subject matter, I would be better able to offer an accurate and meaningful description.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print, Diasec mounted.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 2, 2025
Lot 173
Artists in conversation
Gregory Crewdson
American · b. 1962
Crewdson creates large scale chromogenic prints featuring meticulously staged dreamlike and uncanny scenes that merge psychological tension with cinematic landscapes, closely mirroring Johan's surrealist and conceptual approach to color photography.
Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky produces digitally manipulated large format color photographs that transform natural and constructed environments into conceptually charged surrealist visions, sharing Johan's use of chromogenic printing and digitally altered reality to create otherworldly imagery.
Sandy Skoglund
American · b. 1946
Skoglund constructs elaborate surrealist photographic environments that blend nature with uncanny fabricated elements and vivid color, closely paralleling Johan's conceptual and dreamlike approach to staged color photography exploring the boundaries of reality.
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