Art & Writing
A curated archive
A selected collection of texts, each with a short introduction and verified details — not a document dump. Begin with the strongest 10–15 texts; add more as rights and proofreading allow.
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When George Orwell Woke Up in 2026
An original short story (print edition, 2026)
A speculative short story. A fictionalised George Orwell wakes in London in 2026 and tests the architecture of his warning against a world of smartphones, platforms, algorithms and voluntary convenience — where observation arrives not only as coercion but as assistance. Created with the assistance of ChatGPT and Claude Fable.
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Larry Poons: Creations of Sound
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm — exhibition catalogue, Creations of Sound (2 October – 15 November 2025)
On the occasion of Larry Poons’s first major exhibition in Sweden, a catalogue essay tracing six decades of restless reinvention — from the optical dot paintings of the 1960s, through the poured and thrown “elephant skin” canvases of the 1970s, to the liberated recent work on show at Wetterling Gallery.
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Markus Lüpertz: Zwielicht
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm — exhibition catalogue, Zwielicht (16 April – 24 May 2026)
On Markus Lüpertz’s exhibition Zwielicht — myth not as historical quotation but as a living pictorial structure — read across three paintings (Das Warten, Rote Schnecke, Zwielicht), the fragmented Herkules bronzes and a group of works on paper by one of Germany’s foremost post-war artists. English translation, with the Swedish original.
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Nathalia Edenmont: The Perfect Wound
Iconography / critical essay (final revision, July 2026)
An iconography of the Ukrainian-Swedish artist Nathalia Edenmont — how a post-Soviet youth of loss and disillusionment became the grammar of a body of work that fuses classical beauty with decay, and how, in the recent Out of Body series, she has turned from ephemeral photography to permanent marble, culminating in a three-metre Carrara egg. Final revision, July 2026.
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An Enduring Vision: A Forty-Six-Year Conversation
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm — exhibition catalogue (December 2025)
On new work by Sir Peter Blake, shown at Wetterling Gallery as the latest chapter in a dialogue between artist and gallery spanning more than four decades — from the intimate “Girl with a Disney Tattoo” portraits to the Hogarth and archive collages of an artist, in his tenth decade, still cutting, painting and playing.
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Tony Cragg: Iconography, Method and Milestones
Monograph (1949–present) — revised with sources, August 2026
An illustrated monograph on the sculptor Tony Cragg (b. 1949) in three parts — the evolution of his forms from 1970s scavenged geometry to today’s lyrical steel, the fabrication methods behind them, and a career timeline that straddles Britain and Germany. Seventeen photographs by the author. Revised with sources, August 2026.