Title: Hans Andersson
Description: Hans Andersson's creative world blooms in this monograph. Found photographs, geometrical patterns, torn sheets, crayons and pencils merge in a poetic and low-key expression of a mind fascinated by the dynamic relationship between inner and outer worlds. "From the very beginning, self-chosen poverty has offered itself as a path toward spiritual practices, in a more modest way than with the Christian ascetics in the desert. In the art of our times a movement like Arte Povera has, in names like Beuys, Burri and Paolini, reconnected to this tradition. Today, when the display windows overflow, the poor and obsolete expressions of a work of art position themselves in shocking contrast to the seductive commercial aesthetics and commodity fetishism that permeate contemporary culture: reclaiming the inner life from tne excesses of the material world." (Peter Cornell, from the foreword).
Subjects: Arte povera
Places: Sweden
People: Hans Andersson
Time periods: 21st century