Bland dessa uråldriga spiror. Spira Nr 8

by Olle Norås

Artist Olle Norås (Sverige, född 1982)

Alternate Title

Among these Primordial Spires. Spire No 8

Date2019

MediumGouache and watercolour on paper and wood

DimensionsYttermått: 59,5 × 38,5 × 9 cm

ClassificationPaintings, Drawings, Sculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)

Countries

Sweden

Object NumberMOM/2021/13

CollectionsRecent Acquisitions, Svenska förvärv 2021

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkOlle Norås’s works can be weird wigs that seem to be from the 1970s or the baroque era – shiny, black styled wire on aluminium wedges resembling tent pegs. Or paintings in gouache and gold leaf resembling Rorschach images, suggestive of incantations and enticingly open vulvas. Like artefacts from a highly-evolved but extinct civilisation. We can spot Norås images in the forest, in lichen or fungi, and realise that this was how the work came into being. One of his titles warns us to tread with care on someone’s floor, another notes that the sky is failing. The stretch between the earth’s gravitational pull and the existential universes in a human being is elastic. Rainer Maria Rilke asked in a poem if he was a falcon or a storm. The archaic element that the poem centres on is linked to Olle Norås’s spires.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad med titel och 'Olle Norås' på undersidan

Works by the artist