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Åke Hodell
1967
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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 ...
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Självbiografi
Åke Hodell
1967
Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 18 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, merging writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.


 


Conceived in 1967, this autobiographical work comprises 37 collages assembled from photographs, cartoons, found images, handwritten and typewritten texts, and printed fragments from a wide range of sources, punctuated throughout by black dots evoking bullet holes. The iconography of this self-portrait ranges from the personal and photographic (most notably a portrait of Hodell as a pilot) to the mythological (the fall of Icarus), anatomical (military medical illustrations), spiritual (a sculpture of the fasting Buddha), graphic (aviation comics), cartographic (historical maps), and graphological (journal entries).


 


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

Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 18 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, merging writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Conceived in 1967, this autobiographical work comprises 37 collages assembled from photographs, cartoons, found images, handwritten and typewritten texts, and printed fragments from a wide range of sources, punctuated throughout by black dots evoking bullet holes. The iconography of this self-portrait ranges from the personal and photographic (most notably a portrait of Hodell as a pilot) to the mythological (the fall of Icarus), anatomical (military medical illustrations), spiritual (a sculpture of the fasting Buddha), graphic (aviation comics), cartographic (historical maps), and graphological (journal entries).

 

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, merging writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Conceived in 1967, this autobiographical work comprises 37 collages assembled from photographs, cartoons, found images, handwritten and typewritten texts, and printed fragments from a wide range of sources, punctuated throughout by black dots evoking bullet holes. The iconography of this self-portrait ranges from the personal and photographic (most notably a portrait of Hodell as a pilot) to the mythological (the fall of Icarus), anatomical (military medical illustrations), spiritual (a sculpture of the fasting Buddha), graphic (aviation comics), cartographic (historical maps), and graphological (journal entries).

 

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

Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren
Unpaginated [48 pages]
26 × 18 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, merging writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Conceived in 1967, this autobiographical work comprises 37 collages assembled from photographs, cartoons, found images, handwritten and typewritten texts, and printed fragments from a wide range of sources, punctuated throughout by black dots evoking bullet holes. The iconography of this self-portrait ranges from the personal and photographic (most notably a portrait of Hodell as a pilot) to the mythological (the fall of Icarus), anatomical (military medical illustrations), spiritual (a sculpture of the fasting Buddha), graphic (aviation comics), cartographic (historical maps), and graphological (journal entries).

 

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, merging writing and collage with music, theatre, and performance.

 

Conceived in 1967, this autobiographical work comprises 37 collages assembled from photographs, cartoons, found images, handwritten and typewritten texts, and printed fragments from a wide range of sources, punctuated throughout by black dots evoking bullet holes. The iconography of this self-portrait ranges from the personal and photographic (most notably a portrait of Hodell as a pilot) to the mythological (the fall of Icarus), anatomical (military medical illustrations), spiritual (a sculpture of the fasting Buddha), graphic (aviation comics), cartographic (historical maps), and graphological (journal entries).

 

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

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