Courageousness, individuality and loyalty towards his own choices were trademarks of Lars Gunnar Nordström's artistic production from the beginning. He followed closely the lively artistic life in the Nordic countries, especially the creative currents in Sweden, and made several fieldtrips to follow current events.

The early, cubist-inspired works soon changed into the dynamic, geometrical shapes of his later oeuvre, and his exhibition in 1949 was, at the same time, the first exhibition of abstract art in Finland. His works for the 1955 Artek exhibition were even more monumental, and the vast areas of color on the flat surfaces strive towards a sense of transcendence.

Nordström found his own style very q...