Sofia Fredriksson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

Foto: Åke Adolfsson

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.

 

Om framtiden vet vi inget – inte förrän den är över Stig Johansson, Visdomskalendern 2025

Ulf Carlson

Vän, gallerist och förläggare

James Sparshatt

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James Sparshatt

13/5 - 7/7

James Sparshatt, "Sonhos silenciosos", C-type print mounted to aluminium with UV seal and tray frame, 125x95 cm, 29 500 kr
James Sparshatt, "Sonhos silenciosos" Olinda Brazil, C-type print mounted to aluminium with UV seal and tray frame, 125x95 cm, 29 500 kr
James Sparshatt, "The southern Belle", Baryta Archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "The southern Belle", Clarkside Mississippi, Baryta Archival print, 45x28 cm, upplaga 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Watermelon Slim", Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Watermelon Slim", Clarkside Mississippi, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Bluesman on Beale Street", Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Bluesman on Beale Street", Memphis Tenessee, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Saudade", Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Saudade", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "A moment with Mario", Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 9 540 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "A moment with Mario", New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 9 540 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "O Pracer, The plaesure", Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "O Pracer, The plaesure", Olina Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "The southern gentleman, Lafayette Louisiana, C-type print mounted to aluminium with UV seal and tray frame, 125x95 cm, edition 12, 29 500 kr
James Sparshatt, "The southern gentleman, Lafayette Louisiana, C-type print mounted to aluminium with UV seal and tray frame, 125x95 cm, edition 12, 29 500 kr
James Sparshatt, "Young Fellas on Frenchmen", New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 9 500 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Young Fellas on Frenchmen", New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 9 540 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Harmony on Bourbon, New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 9 540 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Harmony on Bourbon, New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 9 540 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Soul Man", New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Soul Man", New Orleans Louisiana, Baryta silver gelatin print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Ain´t nothing but the blues", Memphis Tenesse, Baryta Archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Ain´t nothing but the blues", Memphis Tenesse, Baryta Archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Silent dreams", Recife Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Silent dreams", Recife Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Last man standing", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Last man standing", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Night of the drums", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Night of the drums", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x28 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "O abrazo", Olinda Brazil, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "O abrazo", Olinda Brazil, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Eu te vejo" Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x18 cm, edition 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "Eu te vejo" Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x18 cm, edition 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "I see you", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
James Sparshatt, "I see you", Olinda Brazil, Baryta archival print, 45x18 cm, edition 35, 7 150 kr inkl. ram
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James Sparshatt är en brittsik fotograf, Hans fotografi fångar glädjen och vibrationerna i musik och dans,  då framför allt från den Amerikanska södern och Sydamerika. Bilderna vi visar är från Brasilen 2023,Memphis Tenesse 2023 samt Louisiana 2019.

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

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR POP UP IN MALMÖ

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THE POP UP FAIR WILL LAUNCH ON APRIL 19TH – APRIL 28TH 

GALLERI FINAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NORDIC ART AGENCY AND AFFORDABLE ART FAIR.

PLACE: NORDIC ART AGENCY AT HANSA IN MALMÖ

GRAND OPENING FRIDAY 19TH OF APRIL 10:00 – 17:00

 PLEASE ALSO JOIN US FOR

ART AFTER WORK ON

FRIDAY 19TH OF APRIL 17:00 – 19:00

&

ARTIST TALKS 

THURSDAY 25TH OF APRIL 17:30 – 18:30

ULF FRÅN GALLERI FINAL SAMTALAR MED KONSTNÄR
CARL GUSTAFSSON

&

JULIET REES NILSSON FRÅN NORDIC ART AGENCY SAMTALAR MED MATHIAS FRYKHOLM OCH ERIC HÅRDSTEDT

 

 
 

GALLERI FINAL IS PROUD TO EXHIBIT ARTWORKS
FROM OUR INTERNATIONAL AND SWEDISH ARTIST´S:

BARRY CAWSTON (GB)

TOMMY TC CARLSSON

CARL GUSTAFSSON

MARINA STENBY

ERLEND MIKAEL SAEVERUD (NO)

OLIW87

LARISSA STENLANDER

MAY LINDHOLM

GALLERY OPENING HOURS:
WEDNESDAY – SATURDAY 10:00 – 17:00
SUNDAY 11:00 – 17:00

Galleri Finals samlingsutställning på Fabriken påsk 2024

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Galleri Finals

samlingsutställning 

på Fabriken

29/3 – 7/4

Elisabeth Ohlson, “Nattvarden” Ecce homo 1998, fotografi, 60×92 cm

Det blir trettonde gången som Galleri Final visar en stor samlingsutställning med flera av Sveriges främsta konstnärer tillsammans med 4 konstnärer från övriga Europa. Totalt blir det i 34 konstnärer inom fotografi, skulptur, mixed media och måleri. I somras visade vi en stor utställning med fotografen Lars Tunbjörk, och för er som missade denna uppskattade utställning ges nu tillfälle att se ett antal av hans kända fotografier.
Nya konstnärer för i år är bla Jonas Wängestam, Olle Ljungström, Elisabeth Ohlson och Marina Stenby. Vi är glada att kunna visa några av de konstnärer som ställt ut tidigare på Fabrikens sommarutställningar såsom Göran Hägg, Mia Malmlöf samt Jenny Carlsson Grip. Många av konstnärerna återkommer även denna påsk. Nya nätskulpturer av Lisa Abelsson, järnskulpturer av Sven-Åke Ekberg, keramikskulpturer av May Lindholm och ”Nyllen” av Johan Thunell. Vi visar fotografier av Barry Cawston (GB), James Sparshatt (GB), Erlend Mikael Saeverud (NO) och Saga Wendotte visar ett helt nytt fotoprojekt. Och vad vore en påsk utan Åke Arenhill och Åke Andersson? Deras konst har vi visat sedan starten 2011.
Våra skickliga målare såsom Astrid Sylwan, Bo Markenholm, Tommy TC Carlsson, Larissa Stenlander, Stefan MÅS Persson, Karin Holmström, Rasmus Hirthe (DE), Carl Gustafsson, Henrik Johansson, Mats Åkerman, Mattias Sammekull och Sofia Fredriksson visar nya målningar. Mixed media konstnärerna Karl Valve, Oliw87 och Österlenkonstnären Peter Öhman finns också med oss samt Camilla Eriksson.

Utställningen öppen:

Vernissage långfredag 29/3 kl. 10 – 18
övriga dagar 30/3 – 7/4 kl. 10 -18

Fri entré – Fri parkering – Café. Bokshop – Barnhörna

Fabriken Bästekille, Bästekillevägen 78, Kivik
www.fabrikenbastekille.se