Stig Johansson visdomskalender 2025

Posted on November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by cissi

Sista Visdomskalendern av Stig Johansson!

Lördag 14 december kl. 13 - 15

2025 års visdomskalender blir den sista.
I somras somnade Stig Johansson in efter en kortare tids sjukdom,
en god vän och konstnär gick ur tiden.
Under våren 2024 tecknade han sina gubbar och skrev aforismerna till vad han då inte visste sin sista visdomskalender.

Lördagen den 14 december bjuder vi på glögg och pepparkakor på Galleri Final.
Visdomskalendern finns till försäljning där och då för 299kr (ord. pris 349kr).

Varmt välkommen!

Ulf & Cissi

Åke Andersson 30 november – 16 februari

Posted on November 25, 2024December 3, 2024 by cissi

Åke Andersson

30 november - 16 februari

Åke Andersson, Kornhamnstorg, olja på duk, 85x100 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Västerlånggatan, olja på duk, 100x85 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Skogen, olja på duk, 80x100 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Hålet, olja på duk, 82x100 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Sopor, olja på duk, 100x90 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Klimateffekten, olja på duk, 110x100 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Promenad, olja på duk, 100x50 cm, 26 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Måltiden, olja på duk, 100x85 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Samtal, olja på duk, 100x98 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, Läsning, olja på duk, 100x85 cm, 44 000 kr

Åke Andersson, De går mot solnedgången, olja på duk, 90x100 cm, 44 000 kr

Första gången Åke Andersson ställde ut på Galleri Final var 1998 och han har sedan dess gjort ett otal utställningar runtom Europa och New York. Född 1943 och verksam i Södertälje.
Med ålderns rätt har han minskat sin produktion, men bibehållit sitt häpnadsväckande skickliga måleri. Det är rofyllt vackert, men skönheten är en bedräglig. Den lurar ögat att se det tilltalande och att blunda för den bakomliggande katastrofen.

Ända sedan debuten i mitten av 1970-talet har hans Åke Anderssons målningar tangerat den fotorealism som ungefär samtidigt växte fram i USA och även smittade av sig på svenska konstnärer som Ola Billgren, Peter Tillberg och Gerhard Nordström. Det var en rationell verklighet utan undertoner och skildrad med kameralinsens objektivitet och sylvassa skärpa. Men Åke Andersson stannar inte med det.
I likhet med andra magiska realister, bland dem Edward Hopper, låter han oftast denna objektiva verklighet smälta samman med en påhittad (men fullt möjlig) verklighet. I Åke Anderssons konst blir resultatet en hallucinatorisk tredje verklighet, ett förebådande av väntande undergång och katastrofer, som vore han vår tids Nostradamus. Så här kommer det att bli, om inte… Alla dessa skildringar av översvämningar,
folktomma städer och övergivna skogar, av ruiner i stenöknar och växande sopberg vittnar om Åke Anderssons djupa engagemang i vår tids klimatförändringar, miljökatastrofer, konsumtionshysteri och resursslöseri. Allt motsägelsefullt iklätt en tilldragande dräkt av genomtänkt komposition, stoffmåleri och perfekt avstämd kolorit. Britte Montigny, konsthistoriker

Galleri Final finns nu endast på nätet,
och har inga fysiska öppettider.
Vi planerar att ha 5 – 6 utställningar per år som man kan se från gatan.

Har du några frågor om konstnären eller önskar köpa ett verk så kontakta oss gärna på info@gallerifinal.se

Sofia Fredriksson

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

Sofia Fredriksson, en realistisk oljemålare bosatt i södra Sverige, har etablerat sig genom sin medverkan i flera grupputställningar runt om i landet. I hennes konstverk utforskar Fredriksson en mångfald ämnen, från porträtt och interiörer till landskap och havslandskap. Många av hennes verk fångar atmosfären i hennes nära omgivning, och hennes porträtt och figurativa målningar gestaltar ofta nära och kära, inklusive sig själv. Genom användningen av oljemålning som medium lyckas Fredriksson skapa verk som utstrålar lugn och ensamhet. Hennes konst uppmuntrar betraktaren till långsam kontemplation och introspektion, där varje penseldrag bär med sig en känsla av djup och eftertanke. Sofia Fredrikssons verk är en inbjudan till betraktaren att förlora sig i skönheten och den lugnande atmosfären som genomsyrar hennes konstnärskap.

UTBILDNING

Autodidakt
Examen i kinesiska från Uppsala universitet
Examen i konsthistoria
Svenska Akademin för realistisk konst

Bo Markenholm

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

Bo Markenholm is a Swedish artist, born 1964, based in Tommarp (in southern Sweden). His paintings in oil and acrylic are characterized by seemingly simple compositions, executed in a clear realistic style, where the interaction between light and shadow is in focus. The subjects are often still life with fruit motifs, but also fragments of the cityscape or nature. His aim is to “create life on a canvas, projecting the atmosphere and finding an expression for it. My own”. He grew up in a family interested in the arts, encouraging his diligent drawing. In his teens he began painting in oil, inspired by the Impressionists and abstract expressionism. He was also fascinated by photo-realism and technically driven artists. After a B.A. in Art History at the University of Lund and various artistic courses he eventually came to work as an illustrator and portrait artist, using pencils and airbrush. After some years, and over a thousand portraits, he decided in the early 2000s to devote himself entirely to his art – and that it was realism that would be his way of expression. Since then he has had several exhibitions, solo or in group – most in Sweden but also in France, Denmark and USA.

Marina Stenby

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

There’s something irresistably touching in a child’s genuine amazement and total vulnerability before the world. We recognise it because we all have it within us from the beginning. During the life long process of socialising our true inner world is being pushed ever farther and deeper inside, away from other’s glances. The pain and the disappointment that are associated with it stay with us all life long and make us unsure. It’s only after we’ve come across vulnerability among others, most often among children that we get to meet ourselves and for a short moment, we find salvation.

Marina Stenby’s artistry produces this timely meeting with ourselves. Her cardboard cut-out dolls and animals, her acrylic portraits that look like illustrations in children’s books and her subtle watercolours, all of them possess this genuine, fearless, open, vulnerable and honest look that we’ve once lost. This look shines through the strictly sterilised, polished and almost design look alike form that Stenby has perfected.

With her painting Stenby takes her own place in the long tradition of sheer form that is derived from the mannerism of late Renaissance and continues through Modigliani onto today’s stars such as Francesco Clelmente. Within sculpture Stenby’s technique of cut-out dolls that comprises a complicated and time consuming process with several layers of wet paper and gypsum, has led her to a form that could easily be mistaken for a glossy design object unless it didn’t have the disarming look that exposes the essence in itself in Stenby’s whole artistry.

Rasmus Hirthe

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

Rasmus Hirthe
Looking at the work of Rasmus Hirthe requires no instruction, but this guide to a more indepth
look should guide the eye and sensitize.
In terms of form, color and theme, Rasmus Hirthe has consistently followed his path: In the
non-colors black and white, he depicts people in recreational situations in an objective manner.
Through this stringency, he has created a unique selling point, a high recognition, which measures
his artistic quality. A serious artist should urgently develop his own handwriting instead of
becoming infected with every stylistic cold and changing between different ways of painting.
If we look at the color, it initially seems limited to non-colors. Black and white painting in
proverbial use suggests sharp separations and demands unambiguity. However, the painter
succeeds in suggesting color by transmitting very bright light into sharp contrasts. A color sound
is created by the thick application of the layers of material on the coarsely woven ground, the
light shines through and thus gives the picture luminosity. The color created by this mysterious
oscillation is perceived by the observer subjectively – everyone discovers his own individual
color. When I asked the painter about his concentrated palette at the beginning of our joint work,
he reacted quite surprised: ‘For me, my pictures are colorful’.
Rasmus can make black shine, create a shimmering color through non-color, and enthrall the
viewer with his irrepressible pleasure in painting. Viola Stohwasser-Gerdsen MA
Rasmus Hirthe was born in 1971 in Hamburg.
From 1996 to 2004 he studied Fine Art and Visual Communication (focus on film) at the University
of Fine Arts Hamburg and received his diploma there in 2004.
Rasmus Hirthe

James Sparshatt

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

James Sparshatt

James Sparshatt is a British photographic artist. He was a winner of the 2008 International Exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, USA, was shortlisted for the 2009 Sony World Photographic Awards and was a finalist in the World Photography Gala awards in 2010. His print “Soweto Strings” was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York in November 2011.

His work dramatically captures the vibrancy and emotional intensity of life. His images of the music and dance from the Latin world; the flamenco of Spain, tango from Argentina, salsa from the streets of Havana, are full of movement and emotion.

He has been exhibited in New York, Texas, London, Spain, Cuba and across the UK. His 2006 exhibition at the Royal National Theatre was described in the Sunday Telegraph as “a dazzling collection of black and white images…”.

A selection of images are produced as palladium platinum prints by specialist platinum printers Paul and Max Caffell of 31 Studio. 31 Studio also work with David Bailey, the estate of Henri Lartigue and Sebastião Salgado amongst many other photographic luminaries.

Barry Cawston

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

Barry Cawston
Barry Cawston is the recipient of numerous awards, including
the President’s Award at the Royal West of England (RWA)
Open Photography Exhibition. Cawston’s work demonstrates
that, in the hands of an artist of talent, photography can be a
powerfully expressive medium which is able to create art of
great beauty and transmutes the ordinary into the unexpected.
Cawston’s images, whether landscape or cityscape, interior
or figurative, display a fascination with shape, pattern, colour
and texture and, coupled with metaphor and association,
the poetry which these qualities can often suggest. Taken
as a whole, his work seems to express an almost visceral
response to the visual world.
Edited from an article by Hugh Mooney for the
RWA’s ART Magazine
Barry Cawston is born 1966 and lives and works in London.

Sven Åke Ekberg

Posted on October 1, 2024October 1, 2024 by cissi

Sven Åke Ekberg

Sven Åke Ekberg
The sculptor Sven Åke Ekberg was born in 1946 in Rörum,
Sweden. Staying true to his Österlen roots, he has lived among
the apple trees in southern Sweden for the whole of his life.
Heating everyday iron wire until it becomes malleable, he then
forms this into shapes upon which to build from both the inside
and out. Small iron clippings are melted and welded to these until
characters engaged in various kinds of activities emerge.
A lanky young fellow lifts some scrap high above his head. A girl
in a short skirt reaches all the way down to her toes so that you
can almost feel the stretch in the backs of her thighs. A man in a
long coat balances steadily on a sturdy iron nail. On another grey
nail stands, rather less certainly, a woman in high heels carrying a
handbag. A girl rides by on her bicycle, a bouquet of tulips clamped
onto her cycle rack. The activities and forms of body language are
seemingly endless and, in each case, expressed with a palpable
sense of humour. His work includes, for instance, old pitchforks
which have been transformed into candelabra. There is a richness
of detail; some elements, such as ties and flowers, have been
painted red, which, at least in my own mind, encourages me to
continue adding colour to these grey iron miniatures.
There is also considerable variation in the positioning of these
small figures. Sometimes they are placed in groups, sometimes
as solo. Some sculptures stand directly on a podium whereas
others are placed on the head of a nail. In some cases, figures
balance on the shanks of nails sticking out of the wall. Other
tiny characters hang from ceilings or are attached to walls using
transparent neon wire. Everything has been thought out with great
care according to the artist’s vision of his figures.

Posted on August 4, 2024November 25, 2024 by cissi

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Posted on July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 by cissi

Alla dessa dagar som kom och gick-inte visste jag att de var livet

Poeten, författaren och konstnären och tidigare sjömannen Stig Johansson har avlidit, efter en kort tids sjukdom. Igår morse somnade han stilla in i familjens närvaro.
Stig Johansson blev 87 år gammal och efterlämnar sin älskade Sol Britt.

Född 1936 i Bergstena i Västergötland och bosatt i Malmö sedan 1964, då han kom iland efter ett antal år som sjöman på världshaven.
Han började arbeta på Försäkringskassan och fick genom detta arbete på djupet lära känna människan. Dess styrka och svagheter, i en absurd blandning av humor, glädje och sorg.
Denna insikt ledde till att Stig så småningom gav ut diktsamlingar med jämna mellanrum. Kanske det mest kända: Den kapsejsade himlen där den välkända dikten Förlusten finns med:

Alla dessa dagar som kom och gick-inte visste jag att de var livet

Stig debuterade som konstnär 1982 och jag själv såg hans målningar på Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2002. Detta ledde till ett antal separat utställningar på bla Galleri Final i Malmö.

För de flesta i södra Sverige var har mest känd för sina ”Gubbar” och aforismer som han sedan 1985, fram tills för några år sedan, publicerades i Sydsvenskan.

Sedan 2007 gav han även ut varje år på Galleri Final den traditionella Visdomskalendern. Nyligen producerade han 2025 års utgåva, som nu blir den sista.

I dessa tänkvärda och underfundiga månatliga aforismer kommenterar Stig Johansson såväl det politiska dagsläget som människans brister och tillkortakommanden.

En sann humanist och medmänniska har gått ur tiden, och har nu gått iland på andra sidan.
Han efterlämnar ett stort tomrum efter sig, sorg och saknad. Låt oss minnas hans stora livsgärning, och låt oss hoppas att tomheten som finns kvar hos oss, en smula kan fyllas med hans kärnfulla texter, som kan läsas om och om igen, och som beskriver om vad allt handlar om, nämligen livet.