… just take a break… relax…
time exist & time is an illusion
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
DISTANCE
Art Collaboration
Kungsbacka theater
june – 2021 – ON RETURN VISITS
2013 – that was the last time we were at this scene… with great visions & hard work!
… and now 2021, we are back!
Carmen Olsson & Zeppa
zeppa reflections
“Nature Remains”
We are going in to this project… like half knowing and half ignorant. Will we find what we are looking for? You can follow us along the way, poetically, perhaps cryptically… we´ll see!
dancer carmenolsson.com
… there will be more, much more!
dancer/coregafer Carmen Olsson
artist/filmmaker Zeppa
in light
in the presence 0f the light
light is in the process to break up darkness!
I will bring this wonderful feeling to the ones who would like to se it!
😉
Painting Ozzy!
OZZY himself 😉
FINISHING the painting these days, 2021, februari!
… and it is for sale!
Ozzy – The Painting – has been a company in my studio since 2004 – I´ ve changed some things, it was even
bigger before. Now it is in three pieces instead of five! The Painting was presented at an exhibition at KULTUR
CENTRUM RÖDA STEN 2004, and the painting was also included in an retro-exhibition 2005 at Gallery Art Now.
First this year I have it for sale… as in for real!
titel:
“Yea, though I walk trough the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil”
For me, this is a very special object/painting… it represents an era, a time when reality shows began… I believe
“The Osbournes” was the first one… wasn’t´t it?
I am the kind of artist, they call a slowart-artist
THAT REALITY SHOW… THE OSBOURNS!
I needed it… why, I do not know… I very rarely look at things coming through the tv!
… at that time, when I did my life battle on different issues – Ozzy Osbourne show – was just hilarious,
a wonderful window for laffter,
empathy and presens… so, as a reaction to that very special window I summed up my impressions and
experiences in this painting that I gave the title:
“Yea, though I walk trough the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil”
BY offering themselves completely, the family shown a rare courage, and above all, Ozzy in this series – has given a total insight into human life journey!
– between then and now –
The journey we make between young, carefree, angry and boundless – kind of immortal – to age, become
humble, fill the room with humor and self-distance … it was wonderful right then.
I know no one else who showed it so clearly, in such a simple way, so popular and at the same time for real …
it was great!
size: 475 CM X 220 CM / 187″ X approx. 87″
TRIPTYK, MONTAGE, ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS.
for sale: – SEK 300 000 – EUR 28383.375 – USD 31565.142 – CNY 218421.312
OBS: shipping is the responsibility of the buyer, both practically and financially
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARI
happy Greetings to you from me with this little party-dream!
… you have to do the best of the situation in these corona times…
😉
MARIE TOWARDS A NEW HAPPY YEAR!
2021
THIS YEAR…
I BELIVE WE ARE MANY REMEMBERING ANOTHER HAPPY NEW YEAR WHEN WE ALL COULD BE TOGETHER
POWER IN ART
IS IT POSSIBLE TO PUT A SPECIAL ENERGY IN AN OBJECT?
🙂
MASK
GOT MY MASK TODAY
OK, if I can play – as pretending – that I am a smart space-chicken!
😉
… with my own spaceship, then i can cope with it!
There is already some kind of fashion-vibes on these face-things!
I Just have to document this very strange moment!
YOU´VJUST HAVE TO to find you´r own way in this contagious atmosphere, to make you´r mind accept it… for the moment there is no other choice. I really do think that this is just a begining of a type of living, for the moment we find it very difficult but somewhere in the future this in some way will be the normal. I am thinking specially at the divine antibiotics that in the rather soon future will lose it´s effect… maybe this will be, in a more development way, the alternative to that scenario! I believe that in the future, like in 10 years, people will look back at these times an feel horrified that we closed down nearly everything… I think it is absolutely urgent to start up all activities.. as in NOW… and it is absolutely urgent to design very comfortable protection alternativs… that people can cope with… find a way to be normal in!
We just have to step out of the anesthesia!!
… right!?
… would love to take a trip out there!
LAST NIHGT I PAINTED…
… last night I painted, Lolita has got her face back… what a process!! …and as many close said to me: – put away the board!
I didn’t – put away the board – so now it remains to be seen if this face holds, if I have found the right one! I kind of believe it, although it might not be possible to trust, hmmm …
COURAGE
THE SCULPTURE – COURAGE – MADE BY ARTIST BENGT OLSON
A Zeppa close-up of “COURAGE”
OBS: there is one 12 minutes long version of COURAGE upcoming
“Courage” is dedicated to Mr Lennart Larsson, who is a great art lover, patron and a very good friend to both Bengt and me.
“Courage” a story-telling sculpture!
“Courage” speaks to me, every time I pas it… sometimes I believe that some kind of spirit has moved in… or maybe it never left… it only left the quarry when Bengt moved the sculpture to Mölndal.
2017
I want to mention that Bengt received the French, very highly regarded – A Knight Of The Order Of Arts And Letters – 2017.
The French Embassy
“CHEVALIER DE L’ORDRE DES ARTS ET LETTRES”
A KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS
David Cvach, Ambassadeur de France awarding the medal.
Bengt is receiving the very highly regarded – a French honorary title as a recognition of “significant contributions to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance”
My portrait of Bengt
… it has been a long session!
… with many thoughts and sketches – for about three years. – how to portrait Bengt in the most truful way -relevant to my experience!
titel: Deep Dives
ABOUT CREATING CLOTHES
collage – some of – zeppa clothes & creations
COLLAGE-presentation of parts of Zeppa-Creations. This work makes an important existentiell balance for me towards my painting – where I always move around in the “deep” – creating clothes gives me a wonderful surface… where there is easy to be!
it is a way to speak
… or not to speak… It is a global language. It is so fascinating – all different ways – from the simplest to the most complex! It is wonderful, fun and ingenious. I think that we are rather unconscious concerning the dress-perspective, in general… despite all the fashion and consuming.
https://zeppaart.com/collaboration-pang/
sketches for dance-costume
I loved to do these sketches – I made a lot – never shown them before – my interest for fabrics and clothing began with this mission, 2013.
… how the stage costume became!
it became a doorway – a renewed way to think body&room – new insights
link to the development:
Surface… a blessing for the balance!
And this magic fabrics… that speaks and tell… impossible to resist!
ONCOMING
Uddevalla theater
Today we are making the film
… there will be more!
Thank you Malgorzata for letting me use your moving light as my tool.
https://morfotactic.wordpress.com/
KONSTHALLEN
Gothenburg – Sweden
“VÅR HIMMEL RÖD“
19 SEPTEMBER 2020 – 10 JANUARI 2021
“GESTALTAS ERFARENHETER SOM RYMMER ALLT FRÅN KÄRLEK OCH SYSTERSKAP TILL UTSATTHET OCH VÅLD.
MEDVERKANDE KONSTNÄRER ÄR: SARA-VIDE ERICSON, ROXY FARHAT, GABRIELLE GOLIATH, MOA ISRAELSSON OCH JOANNA PIOTROWSKA.”
[KONSTHALLEN]
I WENT TO SE THIS EXHIBITION
… and I had a very speciell experience!
This movie specifically describes my experience of Moa Israelsson´s cocoons !
MOA ISRAELSSON
“Moa Israelssons konstnärskap rör sig ofta i gränslandet mellan fiktion och verklighet, hennes skulpturer liknar föremål vi känner till, men är tillverkade av andra material och dimensioner än vi är vana vid.
Israelssons installation Go, Gone består av tio skulpturer i olika storlekar som hänger från taket. Skulpturerna är formade som stora sovsäckar, mjuka och till synes slitna av yttre åverkan. Stoppningen är synlig och materialet är fläckat, som om det legat ute under lång tid och bearbetats av tidens gång. De omsorgsfullt handsydda skulpturerna vittnar om en stilla vila. Tryggheten sömnen inger, men också sårbarheten. Tyget blir då ett försvar, ett lager mellan kroppen och världen som skyddar och värmer mot det som sker utanför. Verkets titel Go, Gone antyder att något gått förlorat och får sovsäckarna att likna tomma skal. Det enda som återstår är minnet av det som en gång funnits. Samtidigt inger den uppmanande titeln också ett hopp om att lämna förlusten bakom sig och gå vidare, att bli fri, och precis som puppan i en kokong förvandlas och pånyttfödas.
Materialvalet, silke och läder, förstärker känslan av skulpturerna som kokonger, skapade av naturen snarare än syntetiskt framställda av människan. Det är från just silkeskokongen som silkestråden utvinns. De två materialen silke och läder är båda organiska naturmaterial, men samtidigt varandras ytterligheter. Där det ena är ömtåligt och skirt, är det andra tåligt, slitstarkt och grovt. Kontrasten mellan materialen, det skira och mjuka, det grova och smutsiga, bidrar till en känsla av sällsamhet och förfrämligande: föremålen känns bekanta men samtidigt underliga.
Go, Gone, 2019-2020, 10 skulpturer, olika dimensioner, silke och läder.”
[KONSTHALLEN]
vogue talent
OLIVER
My space-son – I´m so proud of him – selected to participate in vogue young talent!
Look at his Instagram page… great creations!
https://www.instagram.com/dammit.oliver/
https://voguetalents.vogue.it/en/?refresh_ce=
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFrbojrgwBV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
She Is Ready!
… ready to go!
soon!
… and I want to save her!
… this is a working place for the moment!
The Process of Lolita “Express”
Follow me a bit!
CONTEX
the process – the development – the birth of an exhibition
TODAY!
… YESTERDAY!
… yesterday!
I´v used so much couler in this one “painting-surge”, I´v scraped of as much… despite that, I´m not in port yet!
BELOW
some of the many shapes!
IT BEGAN WITH PLAY… THE PLAY OF FEAR!
BELOW:
… some of the transformations, under my process with “Lolita Express”!
… this work… it has been over overwhelming!
the first steps!
… STILL THE SAME PAINTING!
WHILE PROCESSING THIS “BEING”
… so many expressions… so many faces…
A Shadow In The Light
On-coming
… a teaser !
To prepare your mind and heart is truly very crucial… because it is oncoming!
the movie
… an poetic interpretation of the in coming era of artificial intelligence.
Oncoming, the film will be a part of a later context… it is supposed to run on a wall in an exhibition setting. There will be more…
ONCOMING is a project and it includes other people… they are, and will be invited to participate by me.
Molly making faces
having fun!
… with thousand faces!
… joking & dancing !
… at grandma Birgits birthday 90!
“listening to understand, painting to know”
… and then, it begins, my slogan kicks in and take over:
and i am on my way… again!
… the painting is leaving Molly and becoming something in my self … and that will be an other story!
Quality Hotel The Weaver
context
This blog post is about my desire to think positively, to look ahead… It´s simply an artist looking at her surroundings and thinking… damn corona! How wonderful it will be when it is over! Many people have been invested at different levels of energi in this project below.
I do care… and I do love to express it!
… through some pictures, some text and
below – 4 – short films!
Quality Hotel The Weaver
There is something going on in Mölndal…
Two gentlemen – two companies
Petter Stordalen – Nordic Choice & Lennart Larsson – Husvärden AB
MöLndal’s new landmark
The construction is advancing, the building growing taller by the day… the high-profile Quality Hotel The Weaver. It sits within the grounds of Krokslätts Fabriker and will be managed by Nordic Choice.
The First Sod!
As with all Nordic Choice hotels, it aspires to be a welcoming “living room” for staying guests and visitors alike. In due time, when circumstances permit, food will be served, from simple snacks to gourmet dinners, as is the custom at Nordic Choice hotels.
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The formidable garage that manages to enhance the area instead of marring it!
Something absolutely lovely about this spot!
To the great advantage of the hotel is, on the one hand the main road outside, taking you straight to the city centre, either by car or by tram; on the other, a beautiful wooded area within a short walking distance with prepared tracks for running or rambling.
Have a look here!
… incredibly close to The Weaver!
“on the other side”
ON THE OTHER SIDE
And another thing!
Close by you will find two attractive neighbours, for anyone in need of either: For your physical health the well equipped gym Nordic Wellness, and for anyone wishing to enhance their looks, the Art Clinic
https://nordicwellness.se/vara-klubbar/goteborg/krokslatts-fabriker/
Quality Hotel The Weaver
Imagine being able to welcome friends and clients here, to stay for a night or more, to hang out, to socialize … pure pleasure!
I can see myself asking friends (in Swedish) “Ska vi träffas på Vävaren?”
… sounds good, doesn´t it !?
😉
KROKSLÄTTS FABRIKER…IT IS a realLy nice place!
… and I will tell you more about that another time!
Bedspread in transformation!
Playing the transformation of a bedspread
A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
SO FUN TO DO – CUT – JUST ON A FEELING!
it became an creation – in the some kind of a rock
Chalmers at the World’s Culture Museum
Exhibition by the students from the Public Building Studio at Chalmers University of Technology!
OPENING of exhibition – 4 JULY 2020
FUTURE – 2045/2050
MEGA – BUILDINGS
Marta Casiraghi …exchange student in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano shows us around at the exhibition!
This beautiful summer day I followed Marie to this very interesting exhibition at the World’s Culture Museum!
MY LATEST ART-WORK
“LOLITA EXPRESS”
There will be more to come!
What is this work about?
… I think the titel speak for it self!
link to page – more about…
FAMILY&INSPIRATION
Molly and Theo
Hello Darlingar… Theo och Molly
A film for you… en film till er!
Såå kul vi hade… och vilka super duper magiska jätte klippdockor ni gjorde!
Vi får corona-vänta lite med nästa träff… men när det blir, oj vad kul att se vad för kläder Blixten och Ella kommer att få! Jag är såå nyfiken … längtar att få se!
Många Kramar till er ifrån DragonVille!
OH… how fun it will be to see what sort of cloths you both will make – to dress Blixten and Ella – I am so curios… longing to see!
Many hugs to you from DragonVille!
Courage
A Zeppa close-up of “COURAGE”
… an artist´s perspective of a friend and colleague´s sculpture, the
artist Bengt Olson. See if you can follow, listen and take in the essence of this sculpture for about 16 minutes. Just sit back and relax!
Zeppa
“Courage” is dedicated to Mr Lennart Larsson, who is a great art lover, patron and a very good friend to both Bengt and me.
Röda Sten 2004
pressure today
… to capture the energy
I believe I am going in an transformation… changing my way to work, letting my brushes free! … and it is unbelievable exhausting! … beyond control!
taking a break
painting!
Just a draft, waiting for…
corona… can it transform to light and pink?
TODAY… I think I will die if I get Covid-19… probably not alone in this thoughts. But anyway… if… I hope to go in an enlightened pink dream…
That fear turns in to courage!
art-photo by zeppa
to go in an enlightened pink dream.
work in progress
two trousers in different fabrics became this top… because it became to strange, I looked like a pink S:t Claus,
the Christmas guy! 🙂
... my first encounter with the ritual of society ... I am looking at my godmother who has handed me over to this strange omission - foreign power - not scary, just very strange. ... what transformations we go through in life, both bodily and in the personality! ... even though the higher self is intact and untouched! The core of the self is in the photo... exactly the same core as now in grown up life. Wonder what happens with that core when it leaves all the layers of personality?!
A Shadow In The Light
On-coming
… a teaser !
To prepare your mind and heart is truly very crucial… because it is oncoming!
the movie
… an poetic interpretation of the in coming era of artificial intelligence.
Oncoming, the film will be a part of a later context… it is supposed to run on a wall in an exhibition setting. There will be more…
ONCOMING is a project and it includes other people… they are, and will be invited to participate by me.
The Robot Artist-Zeppa
WHO IS SHE?… just entering my studio!
This is about Artificial Intelligence … it’s about what’s coming, which is actually already here, even though we don’t really see it yet … but we soon will.
For My part, a robot artist has already walked in … one who even thinks that I should work as her assistant … DUH!!
… it’s both humorous but also a bit brutal,
it’s like no ordinary pick-nick… so to speak!
PS: this post is a sketch, the beginning of a project!
a moviecut
a moviecut
a moviecut
… nodding towards me!
The projected digital animation, titled 'Cohesive Flesh', was created by Malgorzata Zboinska as a part of her artistic project 'Architectural Convertibles' funded by the Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet.
… nodding towards me… like she wants me to assist her!
Zeppa-Utopia
CONSTRUCTION IS ONGOING!
At this place is a part of me living and creating…it is totally wonderful… evan that there is much left to do!
It exist only in my mind, but in my mind it is real!
I Will survive
You know, that song above, here's a little story: So I was in Paris, shared an apartment with a Swede, model on Vouge, one day one of her partners (she had many) wanted to take us out to dinner. I was sitting in the back seat of his skinny sports car, he was a producer. He inserted a cassette… then he said: - By the way, you have to listen… a black girl came in today and left this demon… listen… of course it sounds good! It was her above, Gloria Gaynor !!
WHOM I HAD TO THE TABLE…
today I will celebrate… celebrate that life is increable…
it really is!
the limits are self made in our brains!
1976
me… struggling with life, struggling with existens, and yea… everything! The only thing that kept me alive was my goal, was my painting!
The story is long… so I shorten it very much for this moment of celebration by only telling this:
in one months time
I went from totally lost “in the pancake”, with 100 kr in my pocket – to flying Jumbo yet, first class to Perth, Australia – attending an Miss Universe event – as a guest! … and there was no strange attachment to this, there was only me surching for an mecenat. Another time I will tell the long version!
I went home after a couple of mounts with a lot of new inner windows to the world.
1979
I had this man, MR Julio Iglesias to the table… not ones but several times. Ones he started like in a poetic way singing a song with my name… then he asked me how old I was… he thought that I was the youngest – I was not – so the song was not completed! Anyway, he was very nice… and after a while he did find someone to love for the time, the finish ex Miss Universe… she was not so nice towards me in the cab! There was a lot of limousine traveling between different events in 10 days… we were al hanging together. Mr Iglesias, and the friend I was there with were jury members. My god… there is so many unbelievable storys to tell… it really is increable
I´v heard that he has got KV 19… that he is dead… I do not know… but I wish him the best where ever he is… and his children… if he is dead, it must be a huge loss for them.
The Cinderella shoes I got from the person who took care of all the girls, these where the shoes they had to the bathing suits… how political incorrect can you bee… me telling this story!!
But I learned a lot, and that was very correct I can tell!
🙂
the only medal i ever got!
until now … as I said, life is unlimited
😉
1981
I had my first exhibition in a flat, private… this painting, below was the first I sold, surprisingly to a famous art collector… I didn’n know who he was – sounds like Megan M. 😉 – but that turned the table so to speak.
This painting was a refection of my experience above… the luxury trip to Pert in Australia 1979.
The Future of Yours
one day there was big nock on my door
I open, and there was a female – very similar to me – I asked her: Yeah… and you are?
She said: O… I am the better You… You can be my assistent!
Dance Art Video
PS
I am sorry to say, that this film – “100 Years Of Seasons” – was not in time, because of a lot of digital problems… so to late, but as they say: “better late than never”.
THE TEASER
below, is the version of the film
“100 Years Of Seasons”
from the site of Bohusläns museum!
There will soon be a renewed version, of this film, here at my site
… just because I’m having an urged to do some more things!
a magic collaboration!
BY the THREE OF US in the body and the fourth in the spirit – Nathalia Edenmont – with her large art-photos.
Carmen carmenolsson.com – Sunniva sunnivabrynnel.com – Zeppa zeppaart.com
Nathalia Edenmont nathaliaedenmont.com
In the Galleria of BOHUSLÄNS MUSEUM – by Studieförbundet – surrounded of art by
Nathalia Edenmont nathaliaedenmont.com
fotografi konstnär/photo artist
