Gustaf Nordenskiöld

The ceramic work of Gustaf Nordenskiöld deals with issues of functionality, primitivism, natural forces and conspicuity. It explores the fields that lie between art, design, crafts and production industrielle.Ses ceramic pieces have an essential interest of functionality and interface between man and object. By an assemblage of natural forces and human refinement, it creates everyday objects and uniquesIl trying to counter the conventional ideas of beauty by intriguing works, sometimes grotesque, powerful and personality singulière.L all questions functionality of the object, and prompts the user to explore all their senses to better understand. Is it a cup or is it that this is a sculpture? This idea aesthetic and philosophical questions the parameters of the conventional ceramic Swedish and Scandinavian minimalism.

The method itself is very important:
It integrates the manufacturing process in a part of the finished part. Traces of this process remain visible in the objects, in memory of their manufacture. - It uses the hand as a tool and in the same way he works with machines, eliminating the hierarchy between man and machine. Even if the parts are made ​​entirely by hand drawing is the same as the semi-industrial parts.
Creations by Gustaf Nordenskiöld raise questions about the present and the original objects.