Short stories

source: jonnsonaguirre

consists of cardboard boxes (different sizes) which hang down from the ceiling. In order to see you must lay down on the platform-bed. A vast storyboard is waiting up in the celing. Many starting points, -but no endings, the conclusion has to be condenced by those looking up.

At the same time there is something vurnerable with laying down in public, this is the second part of the work. You can’t see the whole story when standing beside, only when laying down the picture-landscape will open fully..
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source: jonnsonaguirre

Jonnson Aguirre is an artist duo based in Örebro, Sweden and Bonn, Germany. They have collaborated in various projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of works: Watersongs, UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), Grasshopper, and recently art oprenum systems (art:OS). Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has a different weight within the choice of materials and the layers of thoughts which in the end produces its own dynamic. Other approaches may initiate – and set off, create more ideas, like the grasshoppers which is more a mental state then a project that rubs off into different spin-off’s like the later environmental works, like Dissolving self, Short stories, Where are you going, etc..
Their rich facets of forms, materials and contents proves to be both playful and cryptic within the reactions on the everyday life which shape so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between nature and technology.

Another equally central reason for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for life. Energy manifests itself essentially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world to its technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and blowned away our sense for reality long ago.

With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalculable consequences into consciousness and evakes therebye questions about the limits of human life in their work, no answers but lots of questions. Materials are chosen in close connection with the sustained content of the process. Usually they set up a new order, interaction between things which irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturb our usual way of logical thinking.

Jonnson Aguirre take use of traditional techniques as well as media, combinding photo (Jonnson) and sculpture (Aguirre) with painting, live printing, screen, sounds and video which are united into different bodies of work. Critical contents are set into perfection through combinations which gives a bold dynamic.
A cooperation based on principles of dialogue; -in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, the work itself is so much bigger than our selves, and this is the magic that keeps us going.