Days-IN-Beatween

Days-IN-Beatween
Aguirre & Jonnson
sketchbook #2

Days-IN-Beatween
Aguirre & Jonnson
sketchbook #2

Not knowing is maybe not the solution to everything Cage used to
reason, but it’s so much bigger than me.
Being in the process of something can be described as organizing
chaos - which can detach energy and creativity. To become the
explorer beetween daily routines and the big questions can
somehow be a cool feeling…

What we want to express or push with our work
should be contained in each work, or in the experience
of the work. A text about the process or how it came to
be, a story is an optional door opener.
The idea or our investigations should be so much visible
that further academic explanations is for others to make.
All our actions, that later forms our work is from our zigzag
bounces with life. It all comes out of our collitions, our
conversations our missinterpretations, our missatakes.
We like to find more questions then answers in our work,
maybe because we feel the importance of not taking situations
for granted. It’s more or less all about communication,
- how to get your message across.

The inspiration has always been in the
unsertain, in the land between the shores
where the beauty of not knowing speaks,
but the urge to find out is bigger...

make time

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MINDwash

all small little things that keep’s everything

To find a new connection between the layers is far more bigger
then our own minds, it’s more fun to find, discover then to try
bursting something new out of your brain. Chance operations
and cut up techniques are great ways of letting the greater forces
speak through your hands, like the letter of the famous composer
that was not allowed to be open until 50 years after his death,
where he simply wrote ”I did not write a single note, it was all
transmitted through my hands”.

UP_SIDE_DOWN
UP_SIDE_DOWN

work + passion

etween the idea
and the reality
between the motion
and the act
falls the shadow
T.S.Eliot

the impossible is not the things, or the do - no the impossible is in the
mind where our borders tells us to stop, this is where we get stuck

ho_mage

In a world where violence and the underlying risks have become
routine questions, we look at the fragility of life with all its opportunities
and possibilities, giving priority to feelings and emotions.
Both of us have a fairly large cultural background and broad
experience of different cultures and different countries; we belong
to a new variety that should really be termed “world citizens”.
The wish to enhance the value of the everyday, literature, poetry
and music are the inspirational topics of our work. We were looking
for poetry in life, being able to cheer for those little moments that
life consists of, yet are mostly ignored. We do not feel stuck in the
labyrinth everyday; we started caring about our attitudes towards
ourselves or in relation to our environment.
At the beginning we work with collage which consists of humorous
depictions of our behaviour, our emotions and our state of mind,
a rediscovery, our tool being simply a positive mental attitude.
Does this sound simplistic? That doesn’t mean it was easy.
To acquire the proper mindset takes time but, once we had done
so, it was like coming out of a dark tunnel into bright light.
We feel this attitude in our work with warm and bright colours.
We like to play with language and its power, provide a push to the
viewer so they can make their own universe. In the process of our
work, our attitude towards ourselves has become much more free,
open and tolerant. Our study became our playground.

Then on one fine summer day, a significant event occurred in our
studio: a large green Grasshopper suddenly appeared there. This
Grasshopper gave us a new source of inspiration and we tried to
find out more information about him. We learned something very
special, namely the various possibilities he has available for
immediate action: he can jump, fly, walk and make sounds. He
uses all of these qualities to move on in life.
The grasshopper image became a metaphor, a symbol of attitude,
an attitude to succeed in the everyday conflicts of life, significant
or trivial. This graphic element is the common theme in our work;
he is there to remind us about our attitude to our own reflection.
We adopt the attitude of the Grasshopper whenever we feel trapped
and unable to change focus, enabling us to use our diverse mental
attitudes.
He has become the symbol that identifies us.

make it work

jump your shadow

Being an artist is like being a box, you spend your early
years taking everything out of the box, examine each
different piece and play with all possibilities you’ll find
In the later more formative years you examine more
carefully, give more value to some of the things you
have found in your box, this then becomes your work
Then when you’re a mature artist you hold on devotedly
to your personal pieces and arrangements that you
unfolded out of the box; this later becomes your legacy
Then when you’re old and finally die, someone will
come and gather all your stuff and put it into a box
verbally after Stuart Morgan

wwww
No answers but lots of questions
JonnsonAguirre is a duo based in Orebro, Sweden and Bonn/Colonge, Germany. They have collaborated in various
projects over the years, Giovanna Aguirre and Lars Jonnson have created several groups of works: Watersongs,
UMCS (Undeveloped Mobile Communication Survivors), Grasshopper, and recently ART-Oprenum Systems (ART:OS).
Each designed as an open system in which small groups of works, series and individual pieces has a different weight
within the choice of materials and the layers of thoughts which in the end produces its own dynamic. 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 like the later environmental works, Dissolving self, Short stories, Where
are we going and Best Before-Open Studio to mention a few.
JonnsonAguirre’s rich facets of forms, materials and contents proves to be both playful and cryptic within the reations
on the everyday life which shapes so much of the human perception and actions in the tension especially between
nature and technology. Another equally central reason for both Aguirre and Jonnson is ’energy’ as a condition for
life. Energy manifests itself essentially in the processes of communication. Unilaterally reduced in the Western world
to it’s technological components that has bosted the industrial explosion of equipment for communication and
blowned away our sense for reality long ago.
With wit and humor Jonnson and Aguirre move co-products and incalculable 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, interaction
between things which irritates us in the usual way of seeing and disturbs our usual way of logical thinking.
They 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 which gives a bold dynamic. A co-operation based on principles of dialogue;
-in the end it doesn’t matter who has done what, ”the work itself is so much bigger than our selves, and this is the
magic that keeps us going”.
Dr. Susannah Cremer-Bermbach

enjoy more

this that and everything

it’s
time
2
get
up,
you
exist
this
very
moment
-solet
your
heart
breathe
in
joy

a frame is not a frame is not a frame

Our intentions has been to
make questions around the
possibilities that exists within
two adverse systems

waterfall
jump over the box
picture storm

Days-IN-Beatween
Aguirre & Jonnson
sketchbook #2
We learned something very special, namely the
various possibilities the grasshopper has avilable
for immediate action: he can jump, fly, walk and
make sounds.
He uses all of these qualities to move on in life.
The grasshopper image became a methaphor, a
symbol of attitude, an attitude to succed in the
everyday conflicts of life, significant or trivial.