Jockum Nordström
Maquette
2014
Pencil & watercolour on cardboard
10 × 16 × 10 cm
Unique maquette-sculpture in a series of 15 variations, signed by the artist
This work comes with a copy of the publication Children’s Drawings and Poems (Barnteckningar och dikter pa anhalten före döden)
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about this work
This edition is part of Salon Verlag’s Ex Libris Series, for which they invite an artist to reprint their ‘favourite’ book. Each re-printed book comes with a special artist designed cover or dust jacket. These publications cover various disciplines – including medicine, physics, literature, philosophy, travel, art history and urban planning – and provide insight into the creative backgrounds of the invited artist. Of every book, Salon Verlag makes a limited collector’s edition that comes with limited edition print or unique artwork.
about Jockum Nordström
Jockum Nordström makes fragile collages and graphite drawings in which he evokes a surprising universe, populated with old school sailors, jazz musicians, delicately chronicled flora and fauna, ships and noblemen from past epochs. By consequently using the techniques of drawing and collage, the elegant and carefully composed fragments form a mysterious world, flirting even with the sinister. While looking at Nordström’s work, these excerpts and particularly their very specific mode of representation, trigger our imagination and stories start to develop like fine, curving lines. These stories can take the shape of fairytales, but mostly take on more complex forms questioning modern day alienation. The same moving fragility can be discovered in his sculptures, small scale models of an obsolete modernist dream showing the empty space behind the façade and the breakable, cardboard skeleton.
(courtesy of Zeno X)
Jockum Nordström had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lille; Camden Arts Centre, London; Institut Suédois, Paris; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. He has also participated in several group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; SFMOMA, San Francisco; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Work by Jockum Nordström is represented in museum collections including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Jockum Nordström is represented by the following galleries;
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Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
David Zwirner, New York / London / Paris / Hong Kong
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