Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s drawings, collages, illustrations and books are appreciated all over the world. With paper, scissors, pencil, watercolour and crayon, he creates an entirely personal pictorial world where childhood memories merge with the adult world, imagination and dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition Without Lantern<\/em> presents sculptures, collages and sketches, and focuses on Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s artistic process. Much has been brought directly from his studio and has never before been shown. In the collages, images cut from magazines and books meet each other in new contexts. In other works, sheets of paper saturated with colour have been folded into large \u201cfortune tellers\u201d with secret content. Nordstr\u00f6m builds architectural dreams out of old matchboxes, and in the cardboard sculptures he depicts the architectural vision of modernism. Several of the exhibition\u2019s matchbox sculptures relate to a new project, Triumfb\u00e5ge f\u00f6r halta<\/em> (Triumphal Arch for the Lame), a large concrete sculpture planned for a new residential area in Stockholm. The sketch is commonly known as the rough outline of a piece of work, offering the historian or visitor to an art exhibition a clue to the original thinking. The preliminary study might reveal the way things were meant to be. In this [Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s] case, the sketch or maquette scarcely offers an answer. This is not a preliminary study, but rather the study itself. A way of thinking. A room to be in. A place for open-ended questions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Katarina Wadstein MacLeod, \u2019Then and Now. Here and There.\u2019, in Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m: For the Insects and the Hounds. Drawings, Collages and Sculptures 2014\u20132017 <\/em>(Antwerp: Zeno X Books, 2019).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m (born 1963) is one of Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed artists. He had his international breakthrough in 2000, and has since exhibited at galleries and art institutions in numerous countries. Without Lantern is his first major exhibition at a Swedish art museum since 2005. Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s works can be found in several major museum collections. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2004. Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m lives and works in Stockholm and on Gotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THANKS TO Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s drawings, collages, illustrations and books are appreciated all over the world. With paper, scissors, pencil, watercolour and crayon, he creates an entirely personal pictorial world where childhood memories merge with the adult world, imagination and dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6620,"template":"","lagonda_exhibition_cat":[],"lagonda_exhibition_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6238","lagonda_exhibition","type-lagonda_exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"page_gallery":[6608,6610,6612,6614,6616,6618,6620],"exhibition_subtitle":"","exhibition_start_date":"2020-06-09 00:00:00","exhibition_end_date":"2020-10-18 00:00:00","exhibition_gallery":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lagonda_exhibition\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lagonda_exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lagonda_exhibition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6618"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6616"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6614"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lagonda_exhibition_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lagonda_exhibition_cat?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"lagonda_exhibition_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skissernasmuseum.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lagonda_exhibition_tag?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The exhibition\u2019s centrepiece is the large shadow play installation The Anchor Hits the Sand<\/em> (2019), shown here for the first time in Sweden. Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s characteristic paper figures emerge on a screen of semi-transparent paper in an ever-changing play of light and shadows. The reverse side of the installation offers an insight into the mechanical design of this completely analogue work \u2013 don\u2019t miss it! The music, a sound collage composed by Rudolf Nordstr\u00f6m, using a collection of old 78 rpm records, enhances the magical atmosphere. The Anchor Hits the Sand<\/em> has previously been shown at David Zwirner\u2019s London gallery in 2019. In connection with the exhibitions, the sound collage The Murray Collection<\/em> is released as a vinyl record with a cover by the artist. The album and several of Nordstr\u00f6m\u2019s exhibition catalogues and picture books are sold in the Museum Shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/strong>Jockum Nordstr\u00f6m, Carl Fredrik H\u00e5rleman, Sofia J\u00f6nsson, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, and David Zwirner, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"