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, "Madame Green", ironwhire sculpture, ca 15 cm

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.

Oliw87

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Oliw87 Chanel or Die, Bats bla bla bla...,mixed media, upplaga 25

Oliw87

24/9 – 1/11 2020

“I don´t understand anything at all”

 

 

Vi har här glädjen att presentera graffiti konstnären Oliw87 som för första gången ställer ut i Malmö.

Jag ville utforska hur förmögna individer i välmående stadskvarter kunde reagera på Street Art och min graffiti konst som de själva kunde relatera till. Det är nog därför som min serie ”Chanel or Die” väckt så stor uppmärksamhet. Jag vill också att min konst skall vara utmanande och väcka känslor, få folk att reagera och ta ställning.
För mig är också Chanel or Die, (förutom en viss spark mot konsumtionshysterin) även något form av porträtt av mig själv. Många som känner mig beskriver att jag är kontrasten själv. Å ena sidan älskar jag livets goda, kan klä mig i kostym och se allmänt Wall street ut, å andra sidan älskar jag Graffiti och allt stök vad det innebär. Det ena har aldrig uteslutit det andra för mig. Jag gillar dubbellivet, ett vanligt svenssonliv har aldrig fungerat och kommer aldrig fungera för mig. Men visst, idag lever jag ett lite lugnare liv och överfört min graffiti konst till canvasduken. Dock kan jag fortfarande le åt mina kollegors verk som har målat en vägg i de rikas bostadskvarter

Saga Wendotte, "Blue Lily", little people,fotografi fine art print

Saga Wendotte

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Saga Wendotte, "Little Lion Man". photography fine art print, 45x45 cm

Saga Wendotte

Saga Wendotte, Swedish artist. Born 1989, lives and works in Stockholm. In Saga Wendotte’s
imagery there are traces of a camera’s exact registration of a reality that we all recognise,
but there is also another layer, a different reality, more difficult to grasp. Saga Wendotte
seems to want to depict the moment just after something has happened, or the moment
just before something is about to happen. The answer to what this ”something” is, is in your
imagination. When you let yourself be pulled into the images, you help to create them.
The labour behind Saga Wendotte’s images is extensive. Each work consists of several
photographs, often shot in different locations around the world. The work also includes
getting the props, making the clothes, finding the models and creating montages from a
large number of source images. To get exactly the right facial expression, she might combine
several different photographs of the same child to make the final image. The physical
proportions are often somewhat distorted; their heads and eyes are bigger than in reality.
That is one of the components that creates the feeling that the motifs are both familiar and
strangely unfamiliar at the same time.

Short movie about Saga Wendottes workprocess CLICK

Carl Gustafsson

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Carl Gustafsson

“Split visions”

23/3-9/5 2019

 

 Split vision, sv. översättning : Delad syn

Associationer (mina): isär, skiktad, åtskilda el. överlappande fält, flytande fokus, lager, metafor, dubbelhet, paradox, undanglidande, signal, gåtfullhet, svårgripbar, diffus, oklar, löfte, hägring, fyrbåk.

Undertecknad hoppas att dessa associationer kan bidra till en delad syn mellan betraktare och konstnär.

Carl Gustafsson är född 1952 i Helsingborg och bor och arbetar på Österlen.
Studerade bl.a. på Grafikskolan Forum i Malmö och fortsatte med teckning på glyptoteket i Köpenhamn. Debuterade 1976 och därefter har det blivit drygt 60 soloutställningar.

Carl Gustafsson deltar under vernissagen.

Välkommen!

Lisa Abelsson

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Lisa Abelsson

More or less a self-taught artist, with a background as a fashion model in Europe and a trained nurse in Sweden.
She gets her inspiration from fates, fashion, and dance. After some courses in sculpture, she realized that this was her thing to do.
The classic torso is often depicted in her work.
She combines the bodies in very hard iron mesh with soft aluminum, copper or brass, which gives the sculptures life and movement.
The light is also very important and a spotlight on the sculptures will give them beautiful shadows.
She creates strong women that stand up for themselves and for others.
The dance theme, is a frequently recurring theme and has always been a great interest of hers and also old movies with beautiful dresses.
She also creates big dresses in aluminum often combined with recycled old jewelry.

”Madonna” 

Bakgrund: Jag har alltid varit imponerad av Madonna och tyckt att hon varit en professionell artist.
Ännu mer nu när jag plöjt en 900 sidors biografi om henne. Hon var tidigt inställd på att hon skulle bli en stjärna ochhar kämpat hårt för att nå dit!

Hennes musik har inte alltid varit min musik, men vi har nog inspirerats lite av samma saker och det kanske inte är så konstigt då det bara skiljer 2 år mellan oss. Här är mina skulpturer inspirerade av namnen på hennes sånger, men också scenkläderna, där man ju hittar många av de influenser som jag själv jobbat med under åren, såsom Hollywoodstjärnor, flamenco dansare och korsetter. I hennes framträdanden är det stort fokus på dansen, vilket har varit en viktig del i mitt eget skapande.

 

 

”True blue”  
Madonna album 1986,
True Blue står för total loyalitet och trohet.
Madonna skrev musiken då hon var tillsammans med Sean Penn.
Liten torso med romantisk klänning på fot av järnnät, pulverlackad blå.

 

”Open your heart”
Madonna singel 1986
beskriver beslutsamhet och sexuell längtan efter en man.
Torso av järnnät med korsett, pulverlackad svart med detaljer av mässing.

 

”La Isla Bonita”
Madonna  singel 1987
är  känd som den första Spansk-influerade låten av Madonna och en hyllning till skönheten hos latinska människor.
Torso av järnnät och aluminium med flamenco klänning, pulverlackad röd

 

”Like a prayer”  
Madonna singel 1989
handlar om en ung passionerad kvinnas kärlek till gud, vilken hon i sin musikvideo framställer som en ung svart man.
Torso av järnnät med rak klänning, pulverlackad svart. Kors runt halsen.

 

”Vouge”
Madonna  singel 1990
Inspirationen kommer från vougedansarna och koreograferna Jose och Luis Xtravaganza, två pionjärer inom dansen. Vouge är en stiliserad, modern housedansstil som utvecklades under den HBTQ-subkultur som förekom på ballroomscenen i Harlem i New York under 1980-talet.
Liten torso med klänning och korsett pulverlackad svart.

 

”Evita”
Madonna gjorde rollen som Evita tillsammans med Antonio Banderas 1996.
Torso av rostfritt järnnät med romantisk klänning av aluminium och pärlor.

 

”Blond Ambition”
Madonna gjorde Blond Ambition Tour 1990
och Jean Paul Gaultier skapade scenkläderna och den berömda  strut- bh:n.

 

”Holliday”
 är den tredje singeln från Madonnas debutalbum ”Madonna” 1983.
Liten torso av olika nät, pl. blå.

 

”Like a Virgin” 
albumet släpptes 1984
och var hennes andra album. Detta album kom att bli Madonnas genombrott och kom att inspirera en hel generation artister.

 

”Material Girl”  
släpptes 1984 från albumet ”Like a Virgin”
Liten torso med klänning pl. ceriserosa + strasspärlor.

 

Lisa Abelsson is born 1956 and works as a full-time artist in the south of Sweden