Landskab med agave 1918 - 1921

Vilhelm Lundstrom made this landscape with agave using pencil on paper. It's all about the journey of the hand, the way the pencil moves across the surface, and the marks it leaves behind. Look closely, and you can almost feel the scratch of the pencil, the pressure and release of the artist's hand. See the lines that make up the agave plant? They’re not just descriptive; they’re alive, energetic, almost vibrating with a life of their own. And then there’s the way the rooftops are rendered, with a kind of shorthand that suggests more than it tells. Lundstrom reminds me a bit of Giorgio Morandi, in that he finds endless fascination in the ordinary, turning humble subjects into something monumental and deeply felt. His works celebrate ambiguity and the joy of mark-making.