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Welcome to The Collectors' Edge from Nordic Art Partners – our guide to the specific work we do in the modern and contemporary art world. We are researchers, dealers and collectors and our episodes explore the art and markets of under appreciated artists from history that intrigue and inspire us and that form the core of our professional activities. Our episodes strive to offer anecdotal journeys in learning, thoughtful insights and the wisdom of our professional experience, designed to help with well-informed collecting strategies. Whether you're intrigued by the intricacies of the art industry, seeking expert advice on putting some of your money into art, or simply looking for inspiration about interesting and beautiful things to acquire that have been rigorously vetted by us, this podcast is for you. Join us as we explore the art of collecting with a keen eye for aesthetic excellence and practical value.

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Ai Weiwei: Art, Activism and the Aesthetics of Dissent

A 2,000-year-old Han Dynasty urn painted with the “Coca-Cola” logo. A photographic triptych of a priceless vase being dropped and shattered. One hundred million hand-made porcelain sunflower seeds filling Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. a surveillance camera in Carrara marble. Ai Weiwei’s work can look like provocation, but the deeper one looks, the more one sees a consistent, rigorous aesthetic surveying the various imperatives of power, history, memory, labour, the collective and what societies...

52 МИН

Teresa Solar Abboud: Emerging Bodies, Hybrid Forms

Join Nordic Art Partners as we discuss the striking work of Teresa Solar Abboud, a Madrid-born contemporary sculptor whose work has the rare combination of a truly distinctive visual vocabulary and serious institutional momentum. If you’ve been trying to understand what makes an emerging or mid-career artist truly compelling for both museums and collectors alike, her practice is a sharp case study. We talk through the two bodies of sculptural work that define her practice right now: th...

35 МИН

Lee Bae: Infinite Shades of Black

Black can feel simple until you stand in front of a surface that seems to shimmer and breathe. Join Nordic Art Partners to discover the signature achievements of Lee Bae, the South Korean contemporary artist who has turned the elemental material of charcoal into minimal abstract works of remarkable nuance, depth, texture, and light. Listen as we recount Lee Bae’s story; from humble beginnings in rural Cheongdo, via the legacy of Dansaekhwa to Paris, where a humble supermarket pack of charcoal...

29 МИН

Per Kirkeby: The Inevitability of Nature

Join us, Nordic Art Partners, as we discuss the life and work of Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, a trained geologist whose obsessive focus on the timeless weight of geology ensured that he never quite left the field. We explore how he turned his profound understanding and appreciation for sedimentation and erosion into a unique visual language—layered canvases evoking the physical foundations of our natural world, brick structures that tell of mans' temporal relationship to the earth, and tactile...

44 МИН

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Bridget Riley: Activating the Picture Plane

Your eyes think her canvases are moving. That’s the spell Bridget Riley's works cast. Join Nordic Art Partners to understand her unique methodology—brick by brick, line by line; from black-and-white checks to colour-saturated diagonals that make the picture plane come to life with extraordinary movement. We share the formative moments that shaped her practice, from early training at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art to a revelatory encounter with Seurat’s Pointillism, convincing her tha...

51 МИН