Zeppa in collaboration with Carmen Olsson
at the residence: road 45 – Trollhättan’s art gallery
dancer Carmen Olsson:
TEASER – Nature Remains
To complete the art work_The Divine Motherhood
There will be updates on the progress of this work during the summer – this is part one!
film _ 2 min
IT WAS once thought that this person – Maud Adams – the bond woman – would be portrayed. To get to know her face I did plaster casting on her face. Some (long) time disappeared, other things came in between, but now finally this summer the work will be completed.
The meetings were too few, so I took Maud’s face into this sculpture instead. As this sculpture is about The Divine Motherhood… and as I think Maud is a lovely person – really sweet – as beautiful on the inside as on the outside!
I used her face to embodied the Divine mother – the queen of motherhood – a tribute to all mothers.
This mother figure with the ability to love all her children without reservation
… in her lap she has a tiger cub and a lamb!
You never know when it is the last time you see your friend…
Oliver Cederquist – in own costume/design
TRAVELERS
film_ 2.18 min
spiritual tram – painting
oil on canvas
work in progress
ARTIST IN RESIDENT
Pernilla Eskilsson
I had errands for the art gallery in Trollhättan – a work by me, ROOTS was part of Nature Remains&resident Carmen Olsson’s progress – inspiration took hold of me and I slipped into the other resident, Pernilla Eskilsson progress – Cloudy Wagon, I was enchanted and a film is ongoing.
This first part of the film is also in progress. the film is based on an observational, engaging and personal experience of Pernilla’s project.
1 sketch/film – 8.47 min
visitor
… just a message!
Here is simply wonderful to be!
Nature Remains – ROOTS
https://www.trollhattan.se/konsthallen/
With a focus on Carmen Olsson… there will be a post later about Pernilla Eskilssons project!
The purpose of this residence time, is to let the artists develop&experiment with ongoing projects. This film is also an ongoing project, a kind of film sketch!
In this film you can see a tree from above … it is thanks to Patrik Gunnar Helin and his drone!
film -12,16 min
Zeppa&Fantomen_Zeppa&The Phantom
titel of this art work is: Letter From Diana
Denna tavlan har en speciell plats i min historia
This painting has a special place in my history
I guess in this case – it’s me who’s Diana!
Jag antar att i det här fallet – är det jag som är Diana!
… he has entered a new spirit of the times, there is a gender development.
Letter From Diana – 1997
size: 300 x 300 cm
triptyk/tre delar
medium: acryl på duk
MÅLNINGEN har stannat i min ateljé i alla år, förutom en vistelse på några månader på Mölndals museum, för ca 6-7 år sedan. Vid ett tillfälle höll jag ett föredrag för Sveriges fantomen klubb, ett antal herrar, som befann sig spå bokmässan, hade hört talas om tavlan, hörde av sig till Mölndals museum, de bad om ett litet föredrag av konstnären… kunde jag ju inte motstå… samtidigt lite “odd” att berätta att jag fått en baby med fantomen för en grupp herrar… underliga situationer man kan hamna i, men jag tror att de hade kul!. De ville så gärna höra om denna tavlas tillkomst och varför!
THE PAINTING has stayed in my studio for all the years, except for a stay of a few months at Mölndal’s museum, about 6-7 years ago. On one occasion I gave a lecture for the Swedish Phantom Club, a number of gentlemen, who were at the book fair, had heard about the painting, heard from Mölndal’s museum, they asked for a small lecture by the artist and that I could not resist … at the same time a little “odd” to tell that I had a baby with the phantom for a group of gentlemen … strange situations you can end up in, but I think they had fun !. They really wanted to hear about the origins of this painting and why!
close ups – närbilder
NÅGRA detalj bilder ur tavlan:
SOME detail pictures from the board:
Tavlan med ett par andra verk blev också omtalat i medier lite här och var.
The painting with a couple of other works was also mentioned in the media a bit here and there.
Trollhättan – konsthall
… Alice in Wonderland?
It is a fantastic entrance to the area where the art gallery is located … it offers both depth, excitement and incomparable possibilities, if you think about this rabbit’s presence.
Carmen Olsson has been given a residence in Trollhättan’s art gallery – and so has the textil artist Pernilla Eskilsson – starting soon. It is possible to visit the art gallery during this time:
25 april – 22 maj
https://www.trollhattan.se/konsthallen/arets-utstallningar/rad-innehall-air/
WE ARE – Carmen and I – in some collaboration there during her stay.
… again in the light with new meaning!
Wednesday morning a scenery will be moved from my studio to Trollhättan … again in the light with new meaning… like magically!
MOVIE
IN COLLABORATION
WE ARE working out a performance.
We are building a story, through art, through dance, through film … everything matters, all expressions meet in a vortex and have a life of it’s own … we listen … and we are amazed!
We want, in small portions, share the work with you during the project.
We feel that the way are just as interesting as the finished performance.
take part in our journey and follow us
DANCER: Carmen _ carmenolsson.com
ARTIST: zeppa _ zeppaart.com
It will be a show and it will be a movie!
DANCER: Carmen _ carmenolsson.com
ARTIST: zeppa _ zeppaart.com
You never know when it is the last time you see your friend…
Oliver Cederquist – in own costume/design
TRAVELERS
film_ 2.18 min
work in progress
A Dragon Has Come Out Of Its Cave
You can beat the Dragon with your mind
… doesn’t matter if it is an outsider or insider Dragon – it is not easy, you have to practice, every day – to sharpen your focus. The Dragon’s nourishment is your fear, your despair, or your lack of direction.
… and, the truth is, I do not know how to do this … I just know it’s so!
titel: Meet you self in the mirror – and ask your self – Where Are You?
ZEPPA – FASHION
I think I am preparing my self for the infamous dragon people from outer space!!
FABRIC – lizard
Dreaming light – a Light Dragon – do they exist?
there you go – film – the dragon dress
skirt
and of course – film – the dragon pants
trousers
Spirituel Tram Impressions
I think that it is in some ways like go into a twilight zoon when traveling by tram in Gothenburg. On the one hand, the trams that go here are often from the 70’s … it feels really strange, considering how everything else has developed since then! And besides, it’s always a bit special because you get trapped in a vehicle with unknown people, all with their different energy bubbles. I will work in this painting like an experiment. I will see if I can land in an abstract description of a moment on a tram… without any people being seen … really nothing should be seen, just felt!
one min. movie
COURAGE_ the TEASER!
THE FIRST TEASER OBOUT A SCULPTURE?
I do not know, but “COURAGE” has an inherent … if you give yourself time to look, you can feel it.
I’m enchanted … that’s why it will be a movie!
So long, go ahead … a teaser!
There will be more to come about Bengt Olson… you can find out more about him via his website:
A Vortex of DANCE&ART
IN COLLABORATION
WE ARE working out a performance.
We are building a story, through art, through dance, through film … everything matters, all expressions meet in a vortex and have a life of it’s own … we listen … and we are amazed!
We want, in small portions, share the work with you during the project.
We feel that the way are just as interesting as the finished performance.
take part in our journey and follow us
DANCER: Carmen _ carmenolsson.com
ARTIST: zeppa _ zeppaart.com
It will be a show and it will be a movie!
MOVIE
An artist’s defense speech
so-called artist – like myself – you do not choose, it is only in your genes. It’s a blessing – you live a rich inner life. but it is also horrible, vulnerable and omitting. you stand outside your surroundings …
you are visible but almost never seen…
People in the immediate environment are quite often provoked by the person you are … I do not know why … even those closest to you … it is sometimes very lonely, very sad…
Many times I have been extremely hurt … but I have been quiet about it, because I understand that they do not see… did not understand, or chose not to understand … in any case … why do you/we so easily forget respect … the most monumentally important thing… most important human trait!
I guess we can all feel that way … maybe …
CARMEN & ZEPPA
FABRIC IN A BOX… no… TWO BOXES!
some friends
grace fully let their beautiful curtains end up in my studio instead of on the garbage dump … sometimes “manna” falls from the sky!
The performance between Kyoto and Mölndal
2021.12.04
Short film collage, different parts, interpreted by zeppa.
In this performance Carmen did travel threw the digital space
FROM MÖLNDAL – Zeppa studio.
TO KYOTO_ City University of Art _ the Horikawa Oike Gallery
Yasuaki Matsumoto – Hiroshi Koyama – Yoko Iwasaki
After talk at zeppas studio with audience
After talk between zeppas studio and Horikawa Oike Gallery, Kyoto City University of Arts
after talk at horikawa oike gallery with audience
After talk with with audience in Sweden
Jan Christer Magnusson – Carmen Olsson – Harald Svensson – Astrid Von Rosen
Devoted audience, a very pleasant moment!
Lolita Express – The Elusive Painting!
I have repainted this painting about 15 times
… 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!
CARMENS FLAM ‘AND CO – part three
MOVIE
The Short Story Of A Painting
Do You Think they can forgive me…
.. there will be moore!
CARMENS FLAMENCO_part two
CARMENS FLAMENCO _ part one
… many more to come!
The Thirsty Wasp
a sunny day this summer
I didn’t I did not know that they also drank water!
profile in the making
profil film
broker Helene Gometz
DISTANCE
… just take a break… relax…
time exist & time is an illusion
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
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!
😉
THE TEASER _ The Celebration of Women’s Day 100 Years
BOHUS LÄNS MUSEUM _ studieförbundet _ one year ago
The Celebration of Women’s Day 100 Years
THE TEASER
a 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
link to film: https://youtu.be/W-6DUKWSbEY
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!
POWER IN ART
IS IT POSSIBLE TO PUT A SPECIAL ENERGY IN AN OBJECT?
🙂
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 …
ABOUT CREATING CLOTHES
And this magic fabrics… that speaks and tell… impossible to resist!
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.
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!
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!
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…
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
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.
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!
