Conny Blom Kosuth Instruction Piece Text on A4. The Tributes is a growing series of loving, but somewhat humorous remakes of classic works of art by artists like John Baldessari, Bas Jan Ader, Douglas Gordon and more. Conny Blom remakes pieces that have inspired and motivated him in his own artistic practice, in a light-hearted manner, using the simplest of means. As the title suggests, the series is paying respects to the original works, even if it might happen that the essence of the pieces gets misplaced in the process. In this case an instruction to execute a Kosuth piece. More works in the series can be found at: http://connyblom.com/tributes1.html
I am a Swedish artist living and working in Sweden and Slovenia. I took my MFA at the Valand Academy in Göteborg, Sweden in 2007 and I have since since had a long row of exhibitions internationally. For example I have exhibited at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, at Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme in France, at Quartier21, Museumsquartier in Vienna, at Kalmar Konstmuseum, in Kalmar, Sweden and more. In 2012 my sound piece “4’33 Minutes of Stolen Silence” is touring institutions in Europe with the Membra Disjecta for John Cage exhibition. In my work I deal with the defining issues of our modern society, our living conditions and the rights of the individual versus the society and the economical forces. With a background as an art historian, I am trying to balance between the poetic and the subversive, I use material from pop culture as well as iconic pieces of contemporary art to comment, question and subvert established hierarchies. By focusing on the otherwise overlooked, the in-between and the unseen, reediting it into new aesthetic experiences, I aim to provide new perspectives and bring into light previously untold stories. Themes that I am working with are copyright ( for example “The Complete Beatles” : http://www.connyblom.com/completeB.html and “4’33 Minutes of Stolen Silence” http://connyblom.com/433english.html ), underground resistance (“The Bunny Project” which started with me placing carrots on golf courses to encourage the underground resistance – the rabbits – to continue digging tunnels that undermine the hierarchies and thus collapse this arena of upper class entertainment, and ended with pickled confiscated carrot bomb-like looking bunches; http://connyblom.com/bunnyproject.html ), violence as entertainment (“Desensitizer,”: http://www.connyblom.com/desensitizer.html where I am discussing the ways in which the contempo¬rary society is interlaced with media as well as the effect information has upon the individual), and narratives derived from traces of activity (“The Landscapes of Vyshny Volochek,,”: http://www.connyblom.com/vyshny0.html and “Many Times Before”: http://www.connyblom.com/manytimes.html where I have been tracing activities of other artists, be it traditional landscape painters or contemporary artists, trying to tease out the poetic from the unintentional). I am also one of the initiators of Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje: www.cac-bukovje.com
Contact: E-mail: blom.conny@gmail.com Phone: 0046 73 572 1998 Address: Storgatan 18, 261 31 Landskrona, Sweden. Website: www.connyblom.com
Conny Blom Kosuth Instruction Piece Text on A4. The Tributes is a growing series of loving, but somewhat humorous remakes of classic works of art by artists like John Baldessari, Bas Jan Ader, Douglas Gordon and more. Conny Blom remakes pieces that have inspired and motivated him in his own artistic practice, in a light-hearted manner, using the simplest of means. As the title suggests, the series is paying respects to the original works, even if it might happen that the essence of the pieces gets misplaced in the process. In this case an instruction to execute a Kosuth piece. More works in the series can be found at: http://connyblom.com/tributes1.html
I am a Swedish artist living and working in Sweden and Slovenia. I took my MFA at the Valand Academy in Göteborg, Sweden in 2007 and I have since since had a long row of exhibitions internationally. For example I have exhibited at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, at Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme in France, at Quartier21, Museumsquartier in Vienna, at Kalmar Konstmuseum, in Kalmar, Sweden and more. In 2012 my sound piece “4’33 Minutes of Stolen Silence” is touring institutions in Europe with the Membra Disjecta for John Cage exhibition. In my work I deal with the defining issues of our modern society, our living conditions and the rights of the individual versus the society and the economical forces. With a background as an art historian, I am trying to balance between the poetic and the subversive, I use material from pop culture as well as iconic pieces of contemporary art to comment, question and subvert established hierarchies. By focusing on the otherwise overlooked, the in-between and the unseen, reediting it into new aesthetic experiences, I aim to provide new perspectives and bring into light previously untold stories. Themes that I am working with are copyright ( for example “The Complete Beatles” : http://www.connyblom.com/completeB.html and “4’33 Minutes of Stolen Silence” http://connyblom.com/433english.html ), underground resistance (“The Bunny Project” which started with me placing carrots on golf courses to encourage the underground resistance – the rabbits – to continue digging tunnels that undermine the hierarchies and thus collapse this arena of upper class entertainment, and ended with pickled confiscated carrot bomb-like looking bunches; http://connyblom.com/bunnyproject.html ), violence as entertainment (“Desensitizer,”: http://www.connyblom.com/desensitizer.html where I am discussing the ways in which the contempo¬rary society is interlaced with media as well as the effect information has upon the individual), and narratives derived from traces of activity (“The Landscapes of Vyshny Volochek,,”: http://www.connyblom.com/vyshny0.html and “Many Times Before”: http://www.connyblom.com/manytimes.html where I have been tracing activities of other artists, be it traditional landscape painters or contemporary artists, trying to tease out the poetic from the unintentional). I am also one of the initiators of Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje: www.cac-bukovje.com
Contact: E-mail: blom.conny@gmail.com Phone: 0046 73 572 1998 Address: Storgatan 18, 261 31 Landskrona, Sweden. Website: www.connyblom.com