Artist Name: Jesper Waldersten
Swedish, 1969 – present
Jesper Waldersten is at the moment one of Sweden’s most popular illustrators. With his original style of mixing words, photos, music and draughtsmanship (Waldersten, 2019). His art can cause discomfort since it can be seen as ”scary”.
Art Style: Unclear
Inspiration: His own studio
Associated with: Dystopia, not using so much color other than red & creating ”scary” art
Facts: Jesper Waldersten was born in Sweden, 1969. He started of by being a illustrator for the daily newspaper in Sweden called ”Dagens Nyheter” (today’s news). Waldersten has tried many different disciplines throughout his life; painting, photography & graphic art. He has worked as an art director and has created music videos. Waldersten has released a book together with a music team, were he created photos, texts, collages and drawings. The 8th of march until the 9th of July he had a exhibition at Fotografiska in Stockholm, which is a famous gallery/museum for photographers (Waldersten, 2019). His art is very different and he is using a technique that he calls ”bypass brainwriting”, were he try not to think about anything, like meditation, and let’s the unconscious go, but it’s important be fast because the ideas disappear quickly (Huldschiner, 2018).
Do I like his art? Yes, I think he has made very creative pieces. I went to his exhibition and it was very inspiring at the same scary. I think he is an extremely creative person, although I am the type of person who prefers more “happy” art.
References: Waldersten, (2019). About the artist. Retrieved from
http://www.waldersten.com/about/
Huldschiner, H. (2018). Interview: Black art with Jesper Waldersten. Retrieved from
https://www.kingmagazine.se/intervju-king-traffar-jesper-waldersten/
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