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.

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.

collaboration – pang


I MADE THIS STRANGE HEADDRESS IN PAPIÉ MACHÉ It was used later in another context

sketches for dance-costume

sketch for dance-costumeto dancer Carmen Olsson

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!



The Wall

 Berlin, may 14

 

 

 

… with my dear space relative, daughter from the stars, super greate singer, artist and healer… living in Berlin… soon coming up with a new music video, and I am soo waiting for it!!

 

 

 

 

It is in the air!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dark and beautiful… love this deep song by her!

Ode Milk

 

Zorro


 

 

 

Hamburger Bahnhof

I really got inspired by the architecture in Berlin, in the way they manage to merge old and modern structures. We went to a kind of suburb… it did´t look really like this… but it felt like it! (below)

 

Seduce Me


 


sunday meeting

… with Bengt!

(photo above/painting by Bengt Olson above the couch)

 

 

Yesterday I had a long meeting with Swedish-French painter Bengt Olson, who was prepering himself for the tripp back to Paris and to his wife Cric… after an extra long ”staying” in Sweden.

Bengt is telling stories while I am sketching him.  This afternoon he is remembering some disappointments concerning a work… and I must say, that energy adds some intense vibes to the sketch!

 

 

Bengt remebering disappointment concerning a work
sketch/crayon , 43”x36”

 

 





 

mindfullness…




Find the inner room where the noise does not reach!

 The truth is – it is only then as we can understand and clearly perceive what is happening around us outside ourself…. and it´s only then as we can consciously navigate in the outer world!

Unfortunately it is so easy to forgett the inner room…but that is so urgent to be in touch with it …  it should be the main goal!

… to stay connected!

”Serch Inside Yourself”

''Where Art Thou''
”Where Art Thou” 2006, acrylic on canvas, 110”x79”/280cmx200cm

”Drömmen Om Det Goda”

PARADISE
 Only then can we consciously navigate!



 …so it should be the first spot on the list of must-DO!





It is so cool that old theories is becomming a part of everyday use! 



That is future in light!



🙂


PARADISE



my sister…

our sister – we were five sisters – now we are four


This summer 2015, a sunny august … in the garden.

My sister Bibbi and I had a sketch-session in the garden under a small shady apple tree … we knew what was going on… two weeks later Bibbi died.

Bibbi 1962 – 2015

bibbi.kol.bearb.FB
BIBBI, charcoal sketch 70cmX80cm

Thursday, 8/20 2015, my highly and deeply loved sister Bibbi left the earth.

Bibbi, so beautiful, so amazing talented … something the world missed because Bibbi made herself visible only to the family and immediate circle of friends.

I will miss her so much … to see her, to hear her and laugh with her!

Bibbi has always been my first choice of person to show my work … she had a deep, clear and unique picture vision … the best!

Bibbi also had a great knowledge when it came to words, language … all kinds of texts. When she very rarely wrote … it was fantastic!

Bibbi, Bibbi …  I am deeply grateful to all our moments, days, laughter and tears!

Miss you and love you forever!

Your adoring sister Zeppa


That day… that late summer day… when we all found us in another sphere.

twin sister Cecilia
In the twin-sister garden… that day Bibbi left.

Bibbi didn´t believe in life after death! Now… I wonder…

I can´t believe that she don’t exist at all. I believe that somewhere – in an other dimension – her spirit is alive!

I wish I could time-travel to this day, to this beach and meet Bibbi there… because sometimes I dream that she is there!

I have made a sketch from a photo… mixed with my own inner vision – Bibbi in Spain, like 9 years old in a all to big bathing suit in a non bating suit fabric. She and her twin sister were so very thin in this age but full of super energi and curosity – they were kind of a dream team – so incredible sweet! And they had an admirer named “Koftan” which they hung out with a lot.

below

… about 4-5 years later

… same place in Spain, just another beach!

1977 – 15 year – happy and on holidays

… when life as a grown up began, with a lot of wonderful & exciting possibilities!

1977 Bibbi

1976 Månstad

photo Per Darland

bibbis home the last 10 years

rembering 1990


christmas-red

New York 1990


Christmas

soon exactely 25 years agao!

 NOW, 25 YEARS LATER … I can se the same ”Christmas”  energy  in

 Alexander McQueens creations. as in window Christmas  decoration in New York.

 … I remember because I recently got in contact with the 1990s again!

 In December 1990, I went to the USA, with the aim to connect with the art world!

I travelled to New York with a group of people connected to Björn Wetterling.

We visited the studios of some celebreties in the art world as, such as  La Noue, Terence,

Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and James Rosenqvist and some others,

like printers and assistents.

… our meeting with James Roseqvist!

Rosenqvist showing his work and at the same time kindly taking care of us in his studio.

ROSENQ.MOMA.studio.hem
to the left: a lovely art piece of Rosenqvist in a corner at Mooma, and to the right James himself in his studio. (photo Zeppa)

National Art Awards

Frank Stella 

 on shaping the canvas

Frank Stella: Scarlatti and Bali Sculputure Series

 Biographi

… our meeting with Frank Stella!

frank.stella
    (photo zeppa) 

 Humble Mr Frank Stella telling us about his work and showing us his studio!

STELLA.STUDIO.3.hem
(photo zeppa)

STELLA.STUDIO.2.hem
(photo zeppa)

 Robert Rauchenberg

 22 October 1925 – 12 May 2008

Remembering Rauchenberg, By Jim Lewis

 … our visit to his studio!

Rauchenberg´s Studio was the coolest studio I have ever seen… an entire building,

with several floors, studios and living spaces… all very nicly put together.

RAUSHENB.studio.1
(photo Zeppa)

This goat of Rauchenberg ”lives” among us here in Sweden,

 at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the goat has made

a deep, deep impression on me of a kind that I can´t grasp!

RAUSHENB.studio.2
First floor, Studio Rauchenberg (photo Zeppa)

Half of the first floor in the Rauchenberg building was a very large room resembling a

churchlike room… so beautiful and such sacred atmosphere.  All of his space did inspire

the mind to different activities… what a creative way to live!

LA Noue, Terence

… our visit to his studio!

LA NOU.T.studio
Resturant visit with Terence… to the right, his studio… connected to a lovely living space. (photo Zeppa)

We were invited to a coctail party at Terence´s the

 studio before the evening´s visit to the restaurant .

I was especially impressed by one object in his living  room  (beside his work)

… it was a 2000 year old mummy of a little girl… it was very strange

… it had an effect on me… wonder if such company is healthy?

coctail.La Noe
Coctail party in La Noue Studio, 1990 (photo zeppa)

 Zeppa

1990… my own work at the time!


LA.SAMTID.90.2
Zeppa STUDIO, 1990, Gotenburg.

 I worked

 … mostly with two sizes as shown in the photo above. Later, in December, I had a

pleasant break from this work, switching to an interior decorating project where I

was hired to design and create/renew the image of a classic old café in Gothenburg.

The same type of ”Picture Letter” as the group I brougth

to LA were my inspiration for the entire interior project!





LOSSO
the group I brougth to LA: ”Picture Letters”, by Zeppa, 1990, ”’The Los Angeles Group”

The Zeppa INTERIOR design, 1992 Gothenburg, Sweden. 

LA.FISKE.2

Los Angeles  1990

… arriving on 4th December.

I left New York very early in the morning, alone… and extremly nervous, as the taxi driver

who showed up with a wild appearans, chose a way through the very dark park ,

driving like a mad man, mumbling strange words… and an no identifing photo in the

window… I had just heard horror stories with clear directives: don´t travel with taxi drivers

without a photo ID! I arrived in L A not knowing anyone

at all… but with clear focus, my trip was planned!

zeppa.LA.90
Zeppa, L A… by night!

 ART FAIR and PATRONNES DINNER

In connection with The Art Fair I did meet Mr Joel Kessler who very generously

invited me to different events and introduced me to different people… … as like for the

big  party at Karen and Tony Barones Studio in Venice, in some way related to L A Art fair.

🙂
and… my meeting with Extraordinaire Joel Kessler 

Mr Joel Kessler
Joel Kessler at the party in the studio of the couple Karen and Tony Barone in Venice.



The BUZZ.hel
Barones party news paper, ”The BUZZ”… December 1990.                                                                                                                                                                   

Zeppa.at. Barones
(me in red)  🙂

quests at Barones party
Some other quests at the party!

 BaronesKaren Barone and Tony Barone… the greate party fixer!

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