SANDRO CATENACCI'S ART COLLECTION AT BLIQUE BY NOBIS

The art exhibition at Blique by Nobis is part of the private collection of Sandro Catenacci, founder and owner of Nobis Hospitality Group. Rooted in a deep understanding of the classic and the timeless, the art collection at Blique by Nobis is also an extension of his love for contemporary design and architecture, fashion, and art.

The neighborhood where Blique by Nobis is located is known as Stockholm Gallery District, with several of the city’s finest art galleries around the corner. By bringing solid elements of creative expression into the building we’re honoring our surroundings as well as the work of Sigurd Lewerentz, the award-winning Swedish architect who once constructed our building.

Find artworks from world-renowned artists such as Robert Indiana and Joel Shapiro as well as Swedish-based creators like Nathalia Edenmonth and Martin Wickström.

ROBERT INDIANA

Born 1928-2010, from New Castle in Indiana.

Art title: The Hartley Elegy Series. The Berlin Series, 1991

About the artist: Robert is an American artist, a painter and sculptor, who became a central figure in the Pop art movement in the 1060s. His idiom is made of graphic design and an affinity for symmetry. His art expresses the dynamics of American advertising, like slogans and commercial logos, and political excesses in American culture.

Indiana has a creative ability to combine stenciled text and numbers with hard-edged bright colour fields into compelling signs. Indiana’s work comments on national identity and the power of language. His work has been exhibited all around the world and in the most famous museums.

Indiana says that these paintings are the most important paintings he has done. Why? Indiana was obsessed with the American Modernist Marsden Hartley. 1989 he began his “Hartley Elegies” series, having this year as the 75th anniversary of the death of Hartley´s dear friend whose loss initiated a significant creative output for Hartley. These limited edition prints that are left on the market, combines a variety of symbols, numbers and letters in Hartley´s signature Modernist style.

JOEL SHAPIRO

Born 1941 in New York

Art title: Untitled JS 2242, 2017-2018

About the artist: Joel Shapiro’s angular, geometric sculptures reference objects and the human body in various positions and forms. Joel Shapiro’s work bridges the gap between abstract and figurative sculpture in a keenly post-minimalist manner. In his prints, Shapiro often uses the same formal vocabulary to suggest a human presence, but generally is more concerned with the creation of spatial relationships. Joel Shapiro is represented in the collections of most mayor museum and private institutions around the world.

JOEL SHAPIRO

Born 1941 in New York

Art title: Untitled, #8 of 60, 1990

About the artist: Joel Shapiro’s angular, geometric sculptures reference objects and the human body in various positions and forms. Joel Shapiro’s work bridges the gap between abstract and figurative sculpture in a keenly post-minimalist manner. In his prints, Shapiro often uses the same formal vocabulary to suggest a human presence, but generally is more concerned with the creation of spatial relationships. Joel Shapiro is represented in the collections of most major museums and private institutions around the world.

MIKAEL JANSSON

Born 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Art title: Nürburg #10, Speed Of Life, 2006

About the artist: Mikael Jansson is one of the worlds leading fashion photographers and directors, contributing his work in Vouge while also capturing the biggest rockstars & celebrities of all time. Jansson gained international recognition for a nude portfolio published in Dutch Magazine in 1998. The feature spanned 82 pages and included fashion credits to nude images in a nod to Andy Warhol. Apart from Jansson establishing himself with an international roster of international brands since the early 90s, he's been having several books written and exhibitions made.

Mikael Jansson has a unique ability to capture the moment. In 2007 Jansson followed the Formula 1 circuit around the world, photographing cars, drivers, mechanics, race tracks, pit lanes, and spectators. He captured the interplay of speed and mortal men. All the bliss and glamour around the world's coolest motorsport.

”Speed of Life” depicts a peculiar subculture with its own internal codes. A visit to the Monza race track in Italy sparked a fascination.”

NATHALIA EDENMONTH

Born 1970 in Yalta, Ukrainian SSR.

Art title: Dolce Vita, 2016

About the artist: Edenmont is a Swedish/Ukrainian photo-based photography artist who came to Sweden and Stockholm in 1991. Edenmont's work explores pop culture through photography. This at a stage where her work has a tension between a painting and a photography, abstraction and figuration, attraction and repulsion. Her work is based on fundamental themes such as birth, death, womenhood, sex, beauty, and decay. She addresses taboo subjects such a menstruation and miscarriage. She uses natural materials such as beetles, flowers, and vegetables, presenting them in masse as lavish sculptural costumes for her models in a fusion of portraiture and still life genres. In dramatic compositions of that display an almost baroque love of excess, the artist draws on childhood memories & her own experiences.

Edenmont says: “Photography is able to contain and mimic the same hypocrisy that 
colored my upbringing. In photographs, wilting flowers bloom long after they 
have withered. When the blood in my images still looks vivid and alive, the blood 
in reality has long since congealed and clotted, much like the ideals that 
once were so vivid in my youth.”

LENNART RODHE

Born 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Art title: No Title #00_047, 1989

About the artist: Born 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lennart Rodhe, a painter and graphic artist, was one of the foremost representatives of modernism in Sweden. The big breakthrough came in 1947 when he and a number of colleagues participated in the exhibition Ung Form at Färg och Form in Stockholm. His entire artistry is permeated by the constant processing of colors, shapes, and motifs.

MARTIN WICKSTRÖM

Born in 1957 in Finspång, Sweden

Art title: Perfume River XII, 2014

About the artist: Many of the works that can be found in Martin Wickström’s portfolio consist of historical cultural materials, such as documentary photographs, portraits of film stars, or fragments from a cartoon Spiderman. This combined with personal experiences and elements from the present. The carefully created balance between pop art and Swedish melancholy creates interest and fascination. Martin Wickström’s time as an artist started during the 1980s when he was educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He got his big breakthrough in the 1990s. His works have appeared at major exhibitions all around the world - from Beijing and Sydney to New York and here in Sweden.