Ink. pastels, coffee, mustard.
Artist´s book release [2015]
BARBARER SIMULERAR SAMSPRÅK
(Barbarians simulating conversation)Publisher: Styx förlag. Format: 210 x 287 mm, paperback, 140 pages.
Contents:
First part – 30 colour images by Niklas Nenzén, accompanied by texts from Dhmnpss Aeouy, John Andersson, Christian Andersson, Helena Boberg, Kenneth Cox, Christofer Dahlby, Karl Eklund, Kim Fagerstam, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Bill Howe, Robert Lindroth, C M Lundberg, Emma Lundenmark, Maja Lundgren, Matti Steiger Lundmark, Niklas Nenzén, Kristoffer Noheden, Gabriella Novak, Eva Kristina Olsson, Ika Österblad.
Second part – Three b/w comics; Jordens leende, Skuggan and En reserverad plats.
he has so much character, and what a name! ”cannonball transport system!” is that to say that we are all pawns, nothing more than carriers of the violence to be hurled at others by the powerful? and yet…i find him fantastic!….hmmmm
Hurled, yes, I thought about geworfenheit (being thrown before oneself), like being thrown off a horse (or horse evacuating the human-archetype… ; )) like a projectile, trance-journeying like Odin (whom he resembles) on Sleipnir, or as Münchhausen who not only rode on a cannonball but purportedly dragged himself and the horse on which he sat on up from a swamp…projecting the self.
oh! now i am on a search for münchhausen–wow!
this word, geworfenheit, it’s fascinating, and gives me much more to chew on….