Spiking bird
Three enlarged steel nails are driven into the pavement at a short distance from each other. One has been knocked down completely. The only thing we see is the shiny head lying flat on the ground. The next nail protrudes a little above the paving stones. It is brown and heavily infested with rust. The third nail appears to have been hit by a misdirected hammer blow. It's not much more than the tip drilled into the ground. The nail is bent to the side just below the head. On the edge of the head, a tiny bird has settled down.
The Närke province, to which Örebro belongs, is part of what is known in Sweden as the ‘whining belt’ due to the somewhat nasal intonations of the dialect spoken here. And the people from here, Närkingarna, are sometimes referred to as ‘gnäll-spikar’, which translates literally as ‘whiny-nails’.
The artist Stefan Rydéen, himself from this area, sees his sculpture as a therapeutic processing of the Närke dialect and the negative associations surrounding it.
Spiking Bird consists of three enlarged five-inch nails that seem to have been nailed down at different lengths into the ground. On the highest sits a little bird made in a guest artwork performance by Gothenburg-based artist Berit Jonsvik. Maybe we are not whiny nails at all, it seems to be saying, but rather ‘speaking’ birds. Songbirds even. Or perhaps all three at once?
The artwork was first exhibited at the second OpenArt in 2009 and was at that time placed on Drottninggatan by Stortorget. The artists donated the work to the Örebro people, and the nails now shoot up from the concrete outside Conventum.
Konstverk: Spiking bird
Konstnär: Berit Jonsvik, Stefan Rydéen
År: 2009
Material: Galvanized steel
Placering: Conventum, Fabriksgatan
Ägare: Örebro Municipality
Konstverkets position på karta
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