Lost souls make strong spirits: Nanon Morsink
Wandering, lost, lonely figures that seek and find each other. Figures that represent all of us while at the same time they are no one. Souls that enclose their own history and at the same time share a narrative of searching, of dreams.
The Dutch artist Nanon Morsink calls herself a multidisciplinary artist as she has always worked with different materials and techniques. However, her latest works have focused on the use of textiles. Using various salvaged materials, the artist constructs three-dimensional works linked to textile art.
Paintings in which the artist develops the textile concept within the painting, women's faces camouflaged among colourful fabrics and embroideries. Socks made of wool and intervened with footwear that individualise different characters from very diverse fields defined by the artist.
The materials used reveal another facet of the artist, wools traditionally used by Dutch farmers are mixed with gentler fabrics and found plastics. Leather and bells from the shepherds of the Malaga mountains coexist with plastics and horns. This juxtaposition of materials from different origins reflects the feelings of a Dutch woman lost in a culture that she tries to absorb but which she finds alien, intriguing and friendly.
Nanon is of Dutch origin, since 2017 she has been working in Malaga, where she lives. She exhibits regularly in Spain, the Netherlands and other countries. In September 2019, her work was shown at the World Textile Biennial in Madrid where she won second prize for 'Textile Art Photography'. Recently her work has been exhibited in Chicago, Illinois.
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Nanon MorsinkCherry and Vanilla, 2017Mixed media22 x 30 x 32
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Nanon MorsinkEl toque (verde), 2019Mixed media115 x 170
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Nanon MorsinkEl toque (naranja), 2019Mixed media115 x 170
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Nanon MorsinkTotem, 2020Mixed media125 x 40 x 30
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Nanon MorsinkKing of crows, 2020Mixed media, plastic and rope recycled from the greenhouses of Almería.125 x 35 x 30 cms
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Nanon MorsinkLong-Stockings, 2014Mixed media, wool and shoesAproximatelly:
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Nanon MorsinkNeed for soul, 2020Mixed media45 x 22 x 22 cms
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Nanon MorsinkBag Lady, 2020Mixed media34 x 25 x 25 cms
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Nanon MorsinkBlue Jungle, 2020Mixed media, fabric, acrylic and thread.
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Nanon MorsinkCall for anarchy, 2020Mixed media45 x 25 x 22 cms
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Nanon MorsinkHidden, 2020Mixed media, fabric, acrylic and thread.50 x 40 cmsSeries: Women
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Nanon MorsinkLand of confusion, 2020Mixed media60 x 77 x 30 cms
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Nanon MorsinkPink distance, 2020Mixed media, fabric, acrylic and thread.
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Nanon MorsinkSchwarze Gedanken, 2017Mixed media60 x 25 x 25 cms
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Nanon MorsinkSilenced 1, 2019Mixed media, fabric, acrylic and thread.
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Nanon MorsinkSilenced 2, 2019Mixed media, fabric, acrylic and thread.
40 x 40 cmsSeries: Women -
Nanon MorsinkSustainable mouse, 2020Mixed media40 x 25 x 22 cms
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Lost souls
Arte Morbida, Textiles Arts Magazine, May 17, 2021
Nanon Morsink | Lost souls make strong spirits
Isolina Arbulú Gallery. Open to the public from 4 March to 21 May.
Small group visits, by appointment only.
The Dutch artist Nanon Morsink (Hengelo 1964), who has been living in the mountains of Málaga (in the south of Spain) since 2017, exhibits for the first time in the gallery Isolina Arbulú. Nanon calls herself a multidisciplinary artist as she has always worked with different materials and techniques. However, her latest works have focused on the use of textiles. Using various salvaged materials, the artist constructs three-dimensional works linked to textile art.
The exhibition consists of more than 40 works, including an installation from 2014 together with sculptures and paintings from the last year. The exhibition begins in the first room with two figures, two children made of wool and plastic who interact with each other, from their protagonic position at the large entrance to the gallery, indifferent to the world that surrounds and observes them.
Moving down to the second exhibition room, a series of paintings are shown in which the artist develops the textile concept within the painting, women's faces camouflaged among colourful fabrics and embroidery. In the main room there is an installation of more than 20 stockings made of wool and intervened with shoes that individualise different characters from very diverse fields defined by the artist. The large main room presents the true centre of the lost souls, children made of rope and figures that interact, communicating emotions through different plastic resources.
The materials used reveal another facet of the artist; wools traditionally used by Dutch farmers are mixed with gentler fabrics and found plastics. Leather and bells from the shepherds of the Malaga mountains coexist with plastics and horns. This juxtaposition of materials from different origins reflects the feelings of a Dutch woman lost in a culture that she tries to absorb but which she finds alien, intriguing and friendly.
