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Åke Hodell
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CA 36715 (J)
Åke Hodell
1966
Bokförlag: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [28 pages]
21.4 × 17.4 cm

Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a Swedish poet, visual artist, composer, and former fighter pilot. His aviation career came to an abrupt end in 1941 when he crashed during a training exercise at an airfield in Skåne. Following a lengthy hospitalization, he turned his attention to the arts, developing a multidisciplinary practice that combined writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.


 


Often read in relation to “Orderbuch”, this text-as-image artist’s book takes the form of the fictional diary of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Published anonymously under the number assigned to the prisoner by the Nazis, it unfolds as an increasingly illegible account of the Holocaust. From page to page, the handwritten text takes the form of concrete poetry, progressively losing its legibility until it dissolves completely.


 


Excruciating in its stark minimalism, the book’s format also evokes the clandestine notebooks kept by prisoners in Nazi camps, where writing served to preserve traces of individual identity in the face of systematic erasure. Hodell’s artist’s book can thus be situated alongside the radical practices of Fabio Mauri and Christian Boltanski, whose works similarly confront the memory of the Holocaust.


 


A major retrospective devoted to Hodell’s exploration of resistance through art was presented at Malmö Konsthall in 2022.

Bokförlag: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [28 pages]
21.4 × 17.4 cm

Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a Swedish poet, visual artist, composer, and former fighter pilot. His aviation career came to an abrupt end in 1941 when he crashed during a training exercise at an airfield in Skåne. Following a lengthy hospitalization, he turned his attention to the arts, developing a multidisciplinary practice that combined writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Often read in relation to “Orderbuch”, this text-as-image artist’s book takes the form of the fictional diary of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Published anonymously under the number assigned to the prisoner by the Nazis, it unfolds as an increasingly illegible account of the Holocaust. From page to page, the handwritten text takes the form of concrete poetry, progressively losing its legibility until it dissolves completely.

 

Excruciating in its stark minimalism, the book’s format also evokes the clandestine notebooks kept by prisoners in Nazi camps, where writing served to preserve traces of individual identity in the face of systematic erasure. Hodell’s artist’s book can thus be situated alongside the radical practices of Fabio Mauri and Christian Boltanski, whose works similarly confront the memory of the Holocaust.

 

A major retrospective devoted to Hodell’s exploration of resistance through art was presented at Malmö Konsthall in 2022.

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Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a Swedish poet, visual artist, composer, and former fighter pilot. His aviation career came to an abrupt end in 1941 when he crashed during a training exercise at an airfield in Skåne. Following a lengthy hospitalization, he turned his attention to the arts, developing a multidisciplinary practice that combined writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Often read in relation to “Orderbuch”, this text-as-image artist’s book takes the form of the fictional diary of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Published anonymously under the number assigned to the prisoner by the Nazis, it unfolds as an increasingly illegible account of the Holocaust. From page to page, the handwritten text takes the form of concrete poetry, progressively losing its legibility until it dissolves completely.

 

Excruciating in its stark minimalism, the book’s format also evokes the clandestine notebooks kept by prisoners in Nazi camps, where writing served to preserve traces of individual identity in the face of systematic erasure. Hodell’s artist’s book can thus be situated alongside the radical practices of Fabio Mauri and Christian Boltanski, whose works similarly confront the memory of the Holocaust.

 

A major retrospective devoted to Hodell’s exploration of resistance through art was presented at Malmö Konsthall in 2022.

Bokförlag: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [28 pages]
21.4 × 17.4 cm

Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a Swedish poet, visual artist, composer, and former fighter pilot. His aviation career came to an abrupt end in 1941 when he crashed during a training exercise at an airfield in Skåne. Following a lengthy hospitalization, he turned his attention to the arts, developing a multidisciplinary practice that combined writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Often read in relation to “Orderbuch”, this text-as-image artist’s book takes the form of the fictional diary of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Published anonymously under the number assigned to the prisoner by the Nazis, it unfolds as an increasingly illegible account of the Holocaust. From page to page, the handwritten text takes the form of concrete poetry, progressively losing its legibility until it dissolves completely.

 

Excruciating in its stark minimalism, the book’s format also evokes the clandestine notebooks kept by prisoners in Nazi camps, where writing served to preserve traces of individual identity in the face of systematic erasure. Hodell’s artist’s book can thus be situated alongside the radical practices of Fabio Mauri and Christian Boltanski, whose works similarly confront the memory of the Holocaust.

 

A major retrospective devoted to Hodell’s exploration of resistance through art was presented at Malmö Konsthall in 2022.

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Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was a Swedish poet, visual artist, composer, and former fighter pilot. His aviation career came to an abrupt end in 1941 when he crashed during a training exercise at an airfield in Skåne. Following a lengthy hospitalization, he turned his attention to the arts, developing a multidisciplinary practice that combined writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Often read in relation to “Orderbuch”, this text-as-image artist’s book takes the form of the fictional diary of a prisoner in a concentration camp. Published anonymously under the number assigned to the prisoner by the Nazis, it unfolds as an increasingly illegible account of the Holocaust. From page to page, the handwritten text takes the form of concrete poetry, progressively losing its legibility until it dissolves completely.

 

Excruciating in its stark minimalism, the book’s format also evokes the clandestine notebooks kept by prisoners in Nazi camps, where writing served to preserve traces of individual identity in the face of systematic erasure. Hodell’s artist’s book can thus be situated alongside the radical practices of Fabio Mauri and Christian Boltanski, whose works similarly confront the memory of the Holocaust.

 

A major retrospective devoted to Hodell’s exploration of resistance through art was presented at Malmö Konsthall in 2022.

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