Anders Nienstaedt
Anders Nienstaedt’s sculptures and paintings explore the allure of utopia in design and the built environment. Using inexpensive and readily-available material like plywood and corrugated cardboard, the artist creates forms that are simultaneously playful and unsettling. Artist and writer Andy Sturdevant expands on these aspects of Nienstaedt’s practice in his exhibition catalog essay. Sturdevant’s farcical two-hour “walking tour” guides visitors through an imagined Nien-staedt community—home to “some of the best-known examples of the contemporary utopian/eutopian architecture in the Upper Midwest of the United States.”
Follow Sturdevant’s walking tour of Nienstaedt’s work on page 31 of the exhibition catalog.
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