{"id":5703,"date":"2023-02-03T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=5703"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:20:23","slug":"build-on-this-gesture-anders-nienstaedt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-anders-nienstaedt\/","title":{"rendered":"Anders Nienstaedt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-anders-nienstaedt\/faculty-staff-installation-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-13.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1656\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Faculty &amp;#038; Staff Installation-13\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-13-1024x662.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5704\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/Faculty-Staff-Installation-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1656\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Anders Nienstaedt<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anders Nienstaedt&#8217;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\u2019s practice in his exhibition catalog essay. Sturdevant\u2019s farcical two-hour \u201cwalking tour\u201d guides visitors through an imagined Nien-staedt community\u2014home to \u201csome of the best-known examples of the contemporary utopian\/eutopian architecture in the Upper Midwest of the United States.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/BuildonthisGesture-catalog.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow Sturdevant\u2019s walking tour of Nienstaedt\u2019s work on page 31 of the exhibition catalog.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-qr\/\">\u2190 Back to all artists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anders Nienstaedt Anders Nienstaedt&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8158,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5703\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}