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Mamma Andersson & Jockum Nordstrom: Who is sleeping on my pillow
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About The Book
The Swedish artist couple Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom have been at the forefront of contemporary figurative art since the late 1980s. Updating Vuillard for a post-Hitchcock age, Andersson paints beguilingly eerie interiors and landscapes. Nordstrom’s detailed collages, watercolors, and drawings occupy a more folkloric realm peopled by historical and contemporary characters enacting sexual and social roles across broad narrative panoramas.
Included in Who is sleeping on my pillow are texts by Paolo Colombo and Anders Kruger, a poem by Stig Claesson, and an interview with Nordstrom by Marcel Dzama. As Colombo notes in his accompanying essay, “The miracle is that Jockum and Mamma spent more than half of their life together, and that over the years their complicity has guided them into the artists they are, each the complement and the best sounding board for the other.” The publication was reissued to coincide with Nordstrom’s 2014 exhibition, For the insects and the hounds, at David Zwirner in London, and Andersson’s 2015 presentation, Behind the Curtain, at the gallery in New York.
Product Details
- Publisher: David Zwirner Books (November 30, 2010)
- Length: 247 pages
- ISBN13: 9781935202264
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Raves and Reviews
“But while the distorted collages, graphite drawings and miniature sculptures conjure a profound world of make-believe, they concurrently address certain inherently human and undeniably real concepts: relationships, hierarchies of power, the process of maturity and animalistic lust.”
– Harry Thorne, Studio International
“Andersson focuses on space, building eerie interiors where space and perspective seem to warp and melt, while Nordström is more concerned with figures: his naked cavemen, horse-riding Indians, and gun-wielding colonists tend to float in blank voids.”
– Andrew Russeth, Artinfo
“If you can’t make it to the Zwirner gallery [exhibition], you can buy the beautiful catalog.”
– Carmela Ciuraru, ReadyMade
“Works like these deftly remind us how painting conjures poetry out of fluid matter.”
– Joseph R. Wolin, Time Out New York
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