Joakim Ojanen
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Keyword: sculpture, painting, public work, Swedish artist
Series: Svenska illustratörer och konstnärer Size: 110 x 180 mm Pages: 133 Format: softcover Language: Swedish Illustration: in colour & b/w Text: Nina Hemmingsson Printing: Livonia Publisher: Orosdi-Back Pub Year: 2018 Weight: 179 gr ISBN: 9789188629395Description
Article no.: 9789188629395
Ojanen's magical, playful world is filled with corky, sweet characters
Working in both clay, bronze and plasticine, Ojanen's sculptures are intuitive in their making. Starting with the shape of the head, Ojanen gradually begins to prise each character's features from the material, building and experimenting until a unique, individual personality and voice is brought to the fore. A seemingly never-ending array of peculiar noses, eyes and mouths are used that, little by little, evolve in ever-more surreal directions. Ears can function like arms, cheeks begin to stretch and flop, full human lips morph into duckbills and elongated noses sprout from their faces creating an imaginary world where anything seems possible. Ojanen's drawings develop in much the same intuitive organic way as his sculptural works, with the artist using charcoal and pastel as a medium for this exhibition and applying colour to these for the first time.
Working in both clay, bronze and plasticine, Ojanen's sculptures are intuitive in their making. Starting with the shape of the head, Ojanen gradually begins to prise each character's features from the material, building and experimenting until a unique, individual personality and voice is brought to the fore. A seemingly never-ending array of peculiar noses, eyes and mouths are used that, little by little, evolve in ever-more surreal directions. Ears can function like arms, cheeks begin to stretch and flop, full human lips morph into duckbills and elongated noses sprout from their faces creating an imaginary world where anything seems possible. Ojanen's drawings develop in much the same intuitive organic way as his sculptural works, with the artist using charcoal and pastel as a medium for this exhibition and applying colour to these for the first time.