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I Separat har Dana Sederowsky skapat en karaktär som aktivt väljer bort samhället. En karaktär som vägrar behöva någon annan än sig själv. I en blandning av korta, lösryckta meningar, listor, protokoll, långa stycken och tomma sidutrymmen beskrivs här ett liv i total social isolering. Andra människor betraktas på…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Konst Konstformer Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria Textil konst
BORO: Nödens konst handlar om idérikedom sprungen ur brist. Om spår av historia och minnen i lappade och lagade tyger. Den beskriver en japansk textilkultur där minsta tygbit togs till vara på och där kreationer av sparsamhet gick i arv, generation efter generation. Boken innehåller en fotodokumentation av nyckelverk…
Kategorier: Hantverk och handarbete Konst Konstformer Livsstil, hobby och fritid Sömnad och handarbete Textil konst
Boro: The Art of Necessity tells the story of artistry born from hardship. It traces history and memories through patched and mended fabrics – a Japanese textile culture where no scrap of material is wasted, and where economical creations were passed down between the generations. The book contains photo…
Kategorier: Konst
Tuija Lindström
A Dream If Ever There Was One
A unique book with the pioneering works of Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lindström is one of Swedens foremost photographic artists. This is the first book in a series covering her work from 1980 until today. Many of the images in the book were shot during the 1980s while she was…
Material can be symbolic and coded. Our experience of a medium’s temporality becomes apparent only through our knowledge of its material behaviour. As the world becomes ever more digital and physically removed, we rely on a lot of materials (technical equipment, tools and infrastructures) to facilitate the remote…
One to One is the first book on the work of Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter. Encompassing twenty selected design projects that range from buildings and interiors to furniture and objects, this monograph is interlaced with a series of essays that give an insight into Martin-Löf’s working process and provide context…
This publication comprises three volumes in a slipcase dealing with two separate projects: Satellite and Circular Wait. New for this project as a whole is the third book Second Nature. In Martina Hoogland Ivanow s most recent work, the series Circular Wait (2010 2014), she has focused on examining our oftentimes…
In It’s Just Sex the Swedish photographer Claudia Kent explores issues surrounding gender, sexuality, and intimacy. This book is the result of a photographic documentary project conducted between 2013 and 2018 in Germany, Sweden, Australia, and the USA. The featured portraits were taken in the homes of…
It´s probably a combination of the material and the special way in which colors are rendered that gives Polaroid images their often jewel-like aura. It´s a quality that is there almost independently of what the image depicts, although the motif can further boost this effect in quite a palpable way. This is very much…
Kategorier: Konst
Metamorphoses, illusory effects, theatricality, and artificiality. Overloaded ornamentality, bombast, sentimentality, breaches of style, and contrasts. Spiritual and Dionysian ecstasy, dreams, and visions. The world is a stage and life is a dream. A fascination with death, or beauty in death. All this and much more can…
Kategorier: Konst
In times when cameras are ubiquitous and the general public is experimenting with the narrative possibilities of photography more than ever before, a survey of the current status and potential of the photobook is highly relevant. Not only does the photobook constitute an alternative means of display to gallery…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Konst Konst: allmänt Minnesteknik och tanketräning Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss memorial art in our common spaces. The anthology includes texts on monuments, memorials, memory, democracy, power, and oppression and have a…
Ester Almqvist (1869-1934) levde i en brytningstid. De närmare 2 300 verk som finns i Malmö Konstmuseums samling visar på spännvidden från sekelskiftets suggestiva landskap och kvinnoporträtt till färgstarka industrimiljöer. Genom Ester Almqvist möter vi den moderna konstens genombrott och berättelsen om det tidiga…
Tova Mozard has always been interested in how people act and the games that they play in group settings. When visiting Los Angeles for the first time, with that type of improvisation right in front of her, she realised that she d found her subject matter. The distance from her own culture gave her view a different…
Anna Kleberg Tham is a Swedish photographer, filmmaker and installation artist whose work looks at existential questions through everyday situations. Using a variety of working methods including studio-based projects and experimental investigations, Kleberg Tham probes the intersection of the staged and the…
In Solo, Dana Sederowsky has created a character who actively rejects society. A character who refuses to need anyone else. In short, disjointed sentences, and through lists, protocols, long paragraphs and empty pages, the narrator describes a life in complete isolation. Other people are examined from afar. Their…
Scenografi är ingen suverän konstart. Dess betydelse och gestaltningsförmåga uppstår i mötet med skådespelarna på scenen och dessförinnan i samarbetet med regissörer och övriga konstnärer. Däri ligger dess komplexitet som visuellt uttrycksmedel och dess utmaningar. I denna bok belyser en av Sveriges mest framgångsrika…
Kategorier: Konst
109 perspectives collected and visualized by Sandra Praun and Aleksandra Stratimirovic. What is light? To find an answer to this simple but complex issue, prominent and inspiring creatives were invited to share their thoughts on the phenomenon. The result was a collection of 109 entries: poetic and personal thoughts,…
Kategorier: Konst
Ingemar Lööf föddes i ett enkelt arbetarhem i Kristinehamn 1929. Fadern som var murare hade gärna sett att Ingemar fortsatt i samma spår som han själv, men Ingemar hade andra planer. Att i 1940-talets Sverige, långt bort från akademier och lärosäten bestämma sig som 19-åring att bli konstnär måste ha varit ett stort…
Kristina Janssons målningar och verk omfattar ofta en arbetsprocess som hämtar inspiration från aktuella och historiska händelser, med referenser från olika medier och populärkultur. Jansson undersöker också olika typer av rum: privata, offentliga och tillfälliga fiktiva arkitektoniska rum så som teaterscenen,…
Kategorier: Konst Konst: allmänt Krig och försvar Krig och försvar: övrigt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Drone Vision addresses questions of how visibility and verticality are intrinsic to drone technology and its meanings for artistic and political praxis. This book is based on the two-year research project Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest – a collaborative initiative between HDK-Valand, University of…
Kategorier: Konst
New Materialism was the title of a major group exhibition at Bonniers konsthall in 2018, which brought together thirteen artists who work with textiles, clay, wood, and ceramics, and whose work often involves an exploration of the production process itself. This book highlights contemporary art s fascination…
Kategorier: Konst
In the heyday of modernism, the Swedish artist Greta Knutson (1899-1983) was, along with her husband Tristan Tzara, a respected member of the avant-garde in Paris. Although her exhibitions were favourably reviewed by her contemporaries, Knutson’s body of work has never been given the attention it deserves. With…
Light, perception, and how we choose to interpret the outside world is a recurring theme in Katarina Löfström’s videos, three-dimensional works, and installations, and many examples feature in this extensive monograph. In her body of work, she examines visual art s inherent ability to break loose from traditional…
Kategorier: Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, museivetenskap Museivetenskap och kulturarvsvård Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap
Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding context, or which need a specific structure in order to play out. In…
Kategorier: Konst
The starting point for Ear to the Ground is a search for the spiritual and the physical in nature, and how these relationships are created and transformed. Ulrika Sparres landscapes of rock survey the archipelago of Stockholm, the desert of Death Valley and the caves of nomads in South Africa. Ear to the Ground seeks…
What Happens When Nothing Happens is the third book in which Eriksson uses walking as his starting point. The Walk originated with Eriksson walking the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail east of Kyoto, Japan, in 2016. In Circling the Mountain from 2019, Eriksson followed the trail of a wandering monk around Mount Hiei, also…
Kategorier: Konst
Today we are all photographers. Self-portraits are everywhere and snapshots of our lives are circulated and shared frenetically on various social media networks. Distinctions are blurred, not only between the private and public spheres but also between professional and amateur photographic practices. This calls for…
Kategorier: Konst
Oomph är en bok om kvinnorna som gjorde revolution i köken, linneskåpen, vardagsrummen och i tekoindustrin. Med glas, textil, keramik och radikala idéer om framtidens boende satte de Sverige på den internationella designkartan under mitten av 1900-talet. Flera kvinnliga formgivare engagerade sig i den alltmer akuta…
Kategorier: Konst
Patrik Karlström investigates the politics of representation and when he replaces art historical language with the language of economics there is a noticeable shift in meaning. Over the years, Karlström has consistently shown the viewer that no shape or image is neutral, neither in art nor in society as a whole. In his…
In the photographic series The Rectangle’s Sharp Stare Källman has turned her gaze towards closed rooms such as prison cells, exploring the idea that they resemble a camera in the way that they subject light to control, only allowing it in under certain circumstances. Using this as her point of departure, she…
The artist duo Bigert & Bergström have long been interested in producing conceptually and technically complex sculptures and installations with a twist. While their work often touches on serious issues of social and environmental sustainability, (gallows) humor plays an essential part in their practice. The idea…
Kategorier: Konst
Contemporary Swedish Photography provides an overview of Sweden s photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to the wide range of photographers practicing today. The book covers the work of over 50 photographers, presented in alphabetical order, and with an introductory text for each as well as sumptuous…
Maria Friberg’s work is characterised by her great interest in societal issues and a desire to depict the phenomena of contemporary life. Narratives about mans place in a world where the power of nature and culture is difficult to master emerge in her carefully staged images, the production of which often…
Den första resan till Irland ägde rum i mitten av sextiotalet och sedan dess har Per L-B Nilsson regelbundet återvänt med sin kamera. Merparten av bilderna i detta urval fotograferades i Dublin 1967, men har också tillkommit under sjuttio- och åttiotalet i Galway, Tralee, Tubercurry och Derry. Sista bilden är från…
The book derives from Collectively, an international forum with 80 participants on the art of thinking, working and living together organized at Konstnärsnämnden in Stockholm, 24-26 May 2019. Collectively is a concept developed by Council and commissioned by Iaspis, curated by Grégory Castéra. The contribution of…
Fotografen Anders Schönborg kom i kontakt med Angelica sommaren 2013. Då var hon 36 år och döende. Läkarna hade något år tidigare sagt att de inte kunde hejda den cancer som hade brett ut sig i Angelicas ansikte. Genom bild och text vill Anders Schönborg berätta om Angelicas liv ett liv som försvarslös och utsatt.…