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”Best before…” kallar konstnärsduon Jonnson-Aguirre sin utställning. Med utställningstiteln understryker de flera viktiga tankegångar i den gestaltning vi möter. Idéer byter av varandra i ett allt hastigare tempo i vårt allt snabbare samhälle. Hur lång livslängd har idéer idag? Har tempot fått ett eget värde?

Genom att lyfta fram frågeställningar kring flödet av idéer, låter Jonnson-Aguirre oss möta i utställningen vad man nästan kunde kalla idéernas motsats. Idéerna – kulturen – ställs mot naturen. Och här kommer ytterligare en viktig frågeställ-ning in i gestaltningen – vad är det som händer med naturen, hur behandlar vi den egentligen?

Är vi riktigt uppmärksamma kan vi se att vi har en vägvisare med oss. Samme vägvisare som Jonnson-Aguirre nämner i sina texter. Den hop-par från plats till plats och dyker upp här och var. Kanske kan vi hitta den här vägvisaren vi våra vardagsliv, men bara om vi är uppmärksamma?

Michael Andersson utställningsintendent Örebro Länsmuseum

”Best before ...” is the name the artist duo Jonn-sonAguirre have given their show. Within the title they emphasize on many important thoughts around their site contructions. Ideas change, switches one another in an ever increasing tempo of our society. How long does an idea last today? Has speed gotten it’s own value?

By highlighting the issues surrounding the flow of ideas. JonnsonAguirre let us meet in different site-construction what could almost be called the opposed ideas. Culture – and ideas – set against nature. And more here comes another important issue from the depiction - what’s going on with nature, and how do we deal with the facts?

If we are alert, we will discover that we have a pathfinder with us in the exhibit. The same pathfinder as JonnsonAguirre talks about in their texts. It jumps from place to place, peeping out here and there. Maybe we can find this cicerone meddling out in our daily lives too, but only if we pay attention?

Michael AnderssonExhibition curator Örebro County Museum

the idea is to remain

interested, not grow

stiff. only competing

with oneself and to

seek new challenge.

bestbefore - manifest - open studio

the content is what counts not the physical manifestation

we do not create objects - through the objects relationships arises

we don’t create realities - we create opportunities

we’ll use the diversity that simple things carries within

processes usually held behind locked doors in the studio will now

be visible

all transformations will take place during opening hours

transience and spontaneity spans the context in our work

selected urban scenery vs images and sounds from nature as

building blocks

the relationships between time and artobject is our challenge

ideas are fresh goods, but more than that, ideas breed new ideas

instead of looking away, we’ll let ourselves be inspired

not ready made - but ready to be made

bestbefore - manifest - open studiothe content is what counts not the physical manifestation


we don’t create realities - we create opportunitieswe’ll use the diversity that simple things carries within


be visibleall transformations will take place during opening hours



building blocks the relationships between time and artobject is our challenge


instead of looking away, we’ll let ourselves be inspired not ready made - but ready to be made

bestbefore - manifest - open studio

the content is what counts not the physical manifestation


we don’t create realities - we create opportunities

we’ll use the diversity that simple things carries within


be visible

all transformations will take place during opening hours



building blocks

the relationships between time and artobject is our challenge


instead of looking away, we’ll let ourselves be inspired

not ready made - but ready to be made

JonnsonAguirrebestbefore

moving nature (part 1)

supply unit

station 2 station

walk in box (detail)

changes (no.1)

unframed (euro pallet)

picture storm (single piece)

wall of questions (detail)

moving nature / picture storm

picture storm (detail)

supply unit / station 2 station (video)


supply unit

moving nature


picture storm

X - istX - essX - pireX - close X - claveX - pertX - ecuteX - odusX - claimX - haustedX - plode

moving nature (detail)

station 2 station (detail)

walking-points (detail)

station 2 station

being in process can be described as organizing

chaos - which can detach energy and creativity,

to become explorer beetween daily routines and

big questions can somehow be a cool feeling.

short stories (studio version)

walk in box

changes (no.2)

walk in box

(inside the box)

notes from the unspectacular (video)

wall of questions (details)

wall of questions - a relatio-

nal work done in co-operation

with students. it was created on

the spot and gave us all some

thoughts to chew on.

wall of questions

tipi constructions

tipi construction (detail)


picture storm (single piece)



tipi construction (detail)

changes (no.1)


walking-points (detail)

changes (part 2) / walk in box

tipi construction


tipi constructions

picture storm



picture storm



picture storm

tipi construction / picture storm

JonnsonAguirre is an artist duo based in Örebro, Sweden and Bonn, Germany. They have collaborated in various projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of work: grasshoppers, the Watersongs, UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), and recently art oprenum systems (art:OS). Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has different weights within layers of thoughts and materials which produces its own dynamics. Other approaches may initiate – and set off, create more ideas, like the grasshoppers which is more a mental state then a project that rubs off into different spin-off’s.

Their rich facets of forms, materials and content proves to be both playful and cryptic within reaction on everyday life which shape so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between nature and technology. Another equally central concept for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for life. Energy manifests itself essen-tially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world to its technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and blowned away our sense of reality long ago.

With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalcula-ble consequences into consciousness and evakes therebye questions about the limits of human life in their work, no answers but lots of questions. Materials are chosen in close connection with the sustained content of the process. Usually they set up a new order, interactions between things wich irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturbs our usual way of logical thinking.

JonnsonAguirre take use of traditional techniques as well as media, combinding photo (Jonnson) and sculpture (Aguirre) with painting, live printing, screen, sounds and video which are united into different bodies of work. Critical contents are set into perfection through combinations wich gives a bold dynamic. A cooperation based on principles of dialogue; -in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, the work itself is much bigger than our selves and it’s this magic that keeps us going.

Dr. Susannah Cremer-BermbachArt Critic and Head Curator of the GKG-Bonn (Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung)

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JonnsonAguirre is an artist duo based in Örebro, Sweden and Bonn, Germany. They have collaborated in various projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of work: grasshoppers, the Watersongs, UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), and recently art oprenum systems (art:OS). Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has different weights within layers of thoughts and materials which produces its own dynamics. Other approaches may initiate – and set off, create more ideas, like the grasshoppers which is more a mental state then a project that rubs off into different spin-off’s.

Their rich facets of forms, materials and content proves to be both playful and cryptic within reaction on everyday life which shape so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between nature and technology. Another equally central concept for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for life. Energy manifests itself essen-tially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world to its technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and blowned away our sense of reality long ago.

With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalcula-ble consequences into consciousness and evakes therebye questions about the limits of human life in their work, no answers but lots of questions. Materials are chosen in close connection with the sustained content of the process. Usually they set up a new order, interactions between things wich irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturbs our usual way of logical thinking.

JonnsonAguirre take use of traditional techniques as well as media, combinding photo (Jonnson) and sculpture (Aguirre) with painting, live printing, screen, sounds and video which are united into different bodies of work. Critical contents are set into perfection through combinations wich gives a bold dynamic. A cooperation based on principles of dialogue; -in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, the work itself is much bigger than our selves and it’s this magic that keeps us going.

Dr. Susannah Cremer-BermbachArt Critic and Head Curator of the GKG-Bonn (Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung)

?ask yourself?

why is it called a funny bone, when if you hit it, it’s not funny at all?

if money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

can you think of two things at once?

do they have the word ”dictionary” in the dictionary?

can you daydream at night?

if you dug a hole through the center of the earth, and jumpt in, would you stay at the center because of gravity?

when does one cease to be childish?

what is the greatest thing you would sacrifice to find true love?

is there a time limit on fortune cookie predictions?

if a nursing mother had her nipples pierced would the milk come out of all three holes?

”...being in process can be described as organizing chaos - which can detach energy and creativity. to become explorer beetween daily routines and big questions can somehow be a cool feeling...”

Att utforska det okända där färgerna är mer levande

och dynamiken kommer starkare är något som vi

gillar. Vårt arbete handlar mycket om kommunika-

tionsprocesser, vi letar även efter det i olika

material och tekniker. Allt kan vara inspirerande

även ett misstag kan vara det rätta har historien

många gånger visat

Exploring the unknown where the collors are more

vivid and the dynamic comes stronger is something

we like. Our work deals much with communication

processes, we’re even looking for it in different

materials and techniques. Everything can be

inspiring even a mistake can be the right thing

history has many time proved

Grasshopper thinking

”... Our thinking usually bounces back and forth between reason

and imagination. Reason and imagination alternate each other,

mingle, the reason sticks to measurable responses, while allowing

the imagination unpredictable currents that allow us to play with

facts ...”

Edward de Bono: On the Use of Lateral Thinking

works/bestbefore

changes (no.1)

size: 40x 85x14cm

techn: lightbox

material: wood, lightunit, backlite-print on acrylic


size: ca.300x300x100cm

techn: installation

material: wood, canvas, paper, acrylic paint

picture storm

size: various size, each 28x40cm

techn: wall piece

material: acrylic paint, screen, l-prints, acrylic glass

supply unit

size: 95x120x30cm

techn: floor piece/with storm pics

material: wood, paper, acrylic paint,

screen, L-prints, acrylic glass

station 2 station (video)

size: various

techn: DVD video-loop, 30 min

material: two 7.inch DVD-player

walk in box

size: 600x300x230cm

techn: installation

material: wood, metal, paper, acrylic paint

changes (no.2)

size: 40x 85x14cm

techn: lightbox

material: wood,lightunit, backlite-print

notes from the unspectacular (video)

size: various, video projection

techn: DVD video-loop, 30 min

material: 3 video projectors, 3 DVD-players, 2

CD-players, 2 active speaker system

short stories (studio site)

size: various 300x300x100cm

techn: installation

material: cardboard boxes, lightunit, backlite-prints, plexiglass

moving nature

size: various 800x500x300cm

techn: installation

material: wood, metal, cardboard boxes, pigment prints,

plexiglass, acrylic paint, soundscape, CD-player,

active speaker system

walking-points (from the series; were are you going)

size: 18x40cm each

techn: inkjetprint

material: wood, plastic, paper, acrylic paint, etc

wall of question

size: various ca. 750x300cm

techn: installation

material: lacercopies, wood, venetian blind cord

tipi constructions

Size: each 450x250x150cm

Techn: sculpture

Material: papertubes, lacercopies, acrylic paint, canvas

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