… in the end I painted over everything. Now angelically, the painting knows its way … it wants to show itself in the middle of the process, so I let it! This painting is the main number in my exhibition project … when and where is not yet clear.
I will come back with photo of this painting when it is finished!
titel: “Lolita Express”
You should read this painting based on your own experience, your own perception. It’s a private meeting between painting and viewer … nothing is wrong!
oil on canvas – 150 x 220 cm
Below, moore of the process memories! … I mourn their disappearance from the canvas!
Moore of the process memories! … I mourn their disappearance from the canvas!
There is a little fabric store – italienskamodetyger.se – in Mölndal, where you can always find something special, exclusive and beautiful… this abow fabric was bought there – it is an Armani fabric.
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?
party&birthday – Ozzy behind – 2005
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!
Ozzy dear!
– 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 …
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!
… will only use it in crowded spaces!
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!
… 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 …
THE SCULPTURE – COURAGE – MADE BY ARTIST BENGT OLSON
A Zeppa close-up of “COURAGE”
THIS IS THE SHORT VERSION OF THE FILM “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.
BENGT OLSON 2018
2017
I want to mention that Bengt received the French, very highly regarded – A Knight Of The Order Of Arts And Letters – 2017.
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!
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.
PERFORMANCE “PANG”: ONE OF THE MANY SKETCHES – I DID AN INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS ABOOUT THE BODY – CLOUTING – LIGHT&SHADOW INTERACTING WITH THE SPACE IN THE ROOM… FASCINATING! I WISH YOU WERE ALWAYS THIS ADAPTED, IN FACT A BIT LIKE AN OCTOPUS, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE… BUT MAYBE WITH CLOTHES YOU CAN BE SO ADAPTED TO YOUR INNER ROOM . THAT IS THE PASSION IN MY CLOTHING CREATION PROCESS.. IT IS IN A VERY EASY HAPPY PLAYFUL CREATIVE WAY! THE OPPOSITE WAY TO MY PAINTING PROCESS WERE I ALWAYS MOVE AROUND IN THE DEEPEST DEEP.
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.”
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 a visitors. 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!
GARAGE by Wingård
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.
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!
… 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
Lennart Larsson under a light installation at the kultur-projectphoto Heidi Broström – Bengt Olson and zeppa, 2018
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 coreof 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?!
