Jockum Nordström | Beware the Devil's Yarn
Galleri Magnus Karlsson is pleased to present Jockum Nordström’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. It is the first major presentation in Sweden since the very popular ”A stick in the wood” at the Moderna Museet 2005.
The exhibition includes works performed in the past year, drawings, collages and sculptures. Jockum Nordström’s imagery is partly similar, but now more primitive and stripped down.
- The stories are still relevant but the compositions have become flatter and poorer color. More like rebus, says Jockum Nordstrom.
The organic, animals and nature, are only occasional feature of the images while the buildings and harder abstract shapes and surfaces have been taking up more space. For the first time, he now also shows his sculptures in Sweden. Buildings constructed in paper and cardboard that has become increasingly important to the artist. They can be seen as an extension of collagen, but also as three-dimensional drawings.
Jockum Nordstrom was born in 1963 and lives in Stockholm. He has exhibited regularly since the late 1980s, but also worked as an illustrator and children's author. For the past ten years he has established himself as one of Sweden’s most acclaimed artists. He has had an international breakthrough including by a number of exhibitions at David Zwirner in New York and museums worldwide. As one of the few Swedish artists, he is represented in the Museum of Modern Art collection in New York. In 2009 he is shown separately at Zeno X in Antverpen and attend the ”Black Eyes”, a group exhibition including Kara Walker and William Kentridge shown in Dublin, Istanbul and Athens.
