Jockum Nordström doesn’t bother with passing art fads. He is firmly rooted in his own visual world.&nbsp;Drawing is the foundation of everything he creates: pictures, animations, collages, installations, storybooks, record sleeves and matchbox sculptures.&nbsp;Every character, human or animal, is portrayed in stylised, playful shapes.&nbsp;Nordström’s imagery oscillates between the aesthetics of children’s drawings, naïve&nbsp;folk art, lewd elements and political satire.&nbsp;The background often features the typical architecture of the urban periphery.&nbsp;The sheets of paper saturated with watercolour form sober compositions in a warm, earthy palette.&nbsp;Seemingly monochrome surfaces shift when the pigments find their way through the water.&nbsp;The fragile and tactile quality of the materials delights the eye.&nbsp;Never cloying.&nbsp;Always with a slightly tender shabbiness.&nbsp;Singular visual narratives emerge and hover between crass realism and burlesque fantasy.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Art work: Jockum Nordström, Stormen / The Storm, 2015

Jockum Nordström

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