Kristoffer Noheden – författare

Fotografins födelse på 1800-talet var en avgörande händelse i de visuella konsternas historia -- en medieteknologisk omvälvning som förändrade förutsättningarna också för litterärt skapande. Litteraturens och fotografins fortsatta samverkan kom att sätta djupa spår i fältet för konstnärlig produktion under 1900- och 2000-talen. Några av dess uttryck och effekter diskuteras i Att skriva med ljus, där svenska, danska och norska författare rör sig från fotografen Nadars memoarer till filmskaparen Wim Wenders fototexter med nedslag hos bland andra Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Asger Jorn och Elias Canetti.  

Medverkande författare: Björn Billing · Jørgen Bruhn · Johan Gardfors · Mats Jansson · Thomas Hvid Kromann · Kristoffer Noheden · Nils Olsson · Sonia Lagerwall · Unni Langås · Mikael van Reis · Hans Kristian Rustad · Louise Wolthers · Niclas Östlind

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism’s change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II. Intermedial and interdisciplinary, the book unites cinema studies with art history and the study of Western esotericism, closely engaging with a wide range of primary sources, including surrealist journals, art, exhibitions, and writings. Kristoffer Noheden looks to the Danish surrealist artist Wilhelm Freddie’s forays into the experimental short film, the French poet Benjamin Péret’s contribution to the documentary film L’Invention du monde, the Argentinean-born filmmaker Nelly Kaplan’s feature films, and the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer’s work in short and feature films. The book traces a continuous engagement with myth and magic throughout these films, uncovering a previously unknown strain of occult imagery in surrealist cinema. It broadens the scope of the study of not only surrealist cinema, but of surrealism across the art forms.Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth will appeal to film scholars, art historians, and those interested in the impact of occultism on modern culture, film, and the arts.

The research anthology The Halmstad Group- Pioneers of Swedish Surrealism is the first in Sweden to highlight the Halmstad Group from an art science perspective. The anthology brings together text by researchers Andrea Kollnitz, Helene Fuchs, Johan Zimsen and Kristoffer Noheden. All of them present new facts that both build upon- and partially refute- previous stoeries about the Halmstad Gruop and its art. The Halmstad Group is founded in connection with the art and industrial exhibition Halmstad 1929. With great curiosity for modernism, the young artists who under the name the Halmstad Gruop, bring surrealism to Sweden: Sven Jonson, Waldermar Lorentzon, Stellan Mörner, Axel Olson, Erik Olson, and Esaias Thorén. 

 Surrealism is born in Paris 1924 in tandem with the publication of the first surrealist manifesto, Manifeste du Surréalisme. Stellan Mörner brings it to Sweden where the Halmstad Group is inspired, and in the 1930sincreasingly explore what it means to express one´s senses and inner dream world in painting. The group now develops a distinct from of surrealism swtemming from costy, sea, and agricultural landscapes. The special west coast light they depict becomes their signature internationally.

 Then and there the stories about the Halmstad Group begin. It is with pride and joy that Mjellby Art Museum, a hundred years after the birth of surrealism, welcomes curious readers to take part in today´s research based interpretations of the life and work of the Halmstad Groups.