HANS NORDENSTRÓMBRUL26.04-08.05.1974

HANS NORDENSTRÖM is exhibiting at Galerie S:t Petri from 26 April to 8 May 1974.

Under the signature BRUL, the architect Nordenström made his debut in 1961 with small, humorously drawn comic strips of “little men.” According to him, the drawings are at bottom about anxiety and incapacity. The man who always fails is his hero. His life story is outwardly comic, yet touches us inwardly as tragedy. The little stumblebum with his everyman’s face is a complicated double nature, which appears in humorous form.

At the beginning of the 1960s there appeared A Box of Magic, or 118 Different Funny Stories, in which Hans Nordenström wrote in a little leaflet “The Comedian and the Public”: “I may not hate you after all. But you are my opponent, and I stick out to you my long nose, resurrected for artistic purposes.”

Besides comics, Hans Nordenström often and gladly works with animated film. He also holds a doctorate in engineering. During the exhibition the film “Man in Nature – Man in Culture” will be shown. In the 1950s he was also the editor for about ten issues of Blandaren, published by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where among others Pontus Hultén and Per Olof Ultvedt contributed.

On the opening day at 6 p.m., the exhibition will be introduced by Professor Oscar Reutersvärd.