HANS NORDENSTRÓMBRUL26.04-08.05.1974

HANS NORDENSTRÖM exhibits at Galerie S:t Petri

from 26 April to 8 May 1974**

Under the signature BRUL, architect Hans Nordenström made his debut in 1961 with small, humorous drawings of little characters. According to the artist himself, these drawings deal, at their deepest level, with anxiety and inadequacy. The man who always fails is his hero. His life story is, outwardly, comic, but at the same time touches something tragic within us. The little stumbling figure with his everyman face is a complex double-nature, which emerges through humorous forms.

In the early 1960s, the book “A Box of Magic, or 118 Funny Stories” was published, in which Hans Nordenström appears in a small section titled “The Comedian and the Audience.” There he writes:
“Perhaps you still dislike me. But now you are my adversaries, and I extend my long nose to you — resurrected for artistic purposes.”

Besides drawing comics, Hans Nordenström often and gladly works with animated film. He is also a Doctor of Technology. During the exhibition, his film “Man in Nature – Man in Culture” will be shown.
In the 1950s he was also the publisher of around ten issues of Blandaren, released by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where contributors included, among others, Pontus Hultén and Per Olof Ultvedt.

The exhibition will be presented at 6 PM on opening day by Professor Oscar Reuterswärd.