… listening to understand, painting to know!
I/It turned out to be a dragon that came out of a pool of water.
Being offended is really provocative.
To remember buddhist thinking… it kind of didn’t exist!
GOD… I WAS ANGRY!
I realize I need to practice it – the Buddha thought!
film 59 sec
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]
This movie specifically describes my experience of Moa Israelsson´s cocoons !
“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]
The French Ambassad, beautiful rooms. This day my phone just quite… so I had to ask for photos, sometimes ask for phone camera and use myself… so the photos this day are a collection between friends. The photos are processed by me.
Cric, Ulla and Heidi… thank you :-)… o much for the collaboration!
– a French honorary title as a recognition of “significant contributions to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance”
Projects in Paris during the -70’s,:
Palais de Justice – 1976-77, -Cloud – 1978,
link: “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres”
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres
… with the very best company, wife Cric, Nisse and Ulla… dear&lovely friends!
David Cvach, Ambassadeur de France awarding the medal.
“Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres”film by Heidi SPEECH BY: Ambassador David Cvach, by Bengt Olson and by Barry
link: Konstnärsklubben SPEECH BY: Bo Sydow, chairman of Konstnärsklubben.film by Heidi
Bengt with beloved wife Cric, 17 okt 2017.
at the Résidence de France Stockholm
Bengt with very best friends, Ulla, Nisse
Bengt with David Cvach and dear friend Heidi Boys Broström
Lennart Larsson and me… what did we talk about…
Happy and Overwhelmed
After a great reception, we said farewell to an overwhelmed Bengt
and went for late dinner at Miss Voon!
http://www.tv4.se/kockarnas-kamp
My company ate lobstertacos and fjordlax tartar,
a dish that Jonas competed with in the next program the week thereafter, and won!
… so nice to meet you Maud and such a tasty, superb dinner Heidi… a great evening!
Stockholm is beautiful!
http://www.tv4.se/nyhetsmorgon
Jonas Svensson, Stockholm
Stjärnkock who went to school at both Melker Andersson and Danyel Couet. In recent years he
has contributed to the success story Miss Voon in Stockholm and this year he opened new
Miss Voon in Uppsala. His first chef job was in Skåne so now he plans to tie up the bag and win
the Chefs match.
... to find MISS Voon in Stockholm!
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!
…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!
🙂
A winter trip, realy coold… met some friends and joined a guided Christmas tour
in the stone castle. This house carry a lot of stories in the walls!
Part of my family have bee living in a little village cloose by, and still is, that is wy Torpa
Stenhus has a very speciall place in my heart… as it has for most of the people around.
It is located in a fantastic, increadeble envirement… so beautiful that it hurts!
Couple of years ago, specially one very hot summer I went to Hovsnäs,
a place in connection to Torpa, almost every day… rent a rowboat for the day, brought paint
stoff and a picknick… it was totaly amazing wonderfull day´s, just as the photo above!
Sometimes there are a lot of people around here, but sometimes, if you pic a non holyday
period, you can be as lucky as me at that time… for many days I had this increadble
lake nearly by myself.
Unique for Torpa Stenhus is that it is in unimpaired ownership!
Current owner family Zethelius are the direct descendants related to
Arvid Knutsson who built the stone house in the 1400s. The house has
wandered by turns on the male and female line of the family, hence the
relationship with Leijon Main & Capricorn. It is also the only
private “castle” in Sweden, passed in the same family since
the construction of the Middle Ages.
King of Sweden Gustav Vasa… who had some ”doings” at the castle!
… married third and last time Katarina Stenbock 1552-1560…
there is a legend that he had to chase her in the castles
passages to catch her… she was only 17 years old and he was 53.
A newly opened bookstore in Järna has been named, by the owners,
after one of Kerstin´s books: ”Tudda Galumpan”… 🙂 … As far as I know she is the
only writer in Sweden who has achieved such a wonderful, creditable and flattering
honour! She is so worth it… in spite of the fact that she has really had some
ruff experiences in life, she has still managed to keep light and love as her prime motors!
Illustrations to the book is made by one sister of mine (got four) Lena Troedsson…
the two of them where a greate team!
By the way… my Aunt has unicorns grazing in her garden!
webb/article obout the store (in swedish)
webbsite: Bookstore ”Tudda Galumpan”
who is one of a few well known Swedish country singers, had a
suupercool meeting a couple of years ago, when ”The Boss” had
a concert in Gotheburg. When He gives a concert in Gothenburg
it´s absolutely crowded in the city… as Gothenburg totaly loves him!
… so Angelina became ”the one chosen”
This evening kl 20.00… Angelina sings with her bluegrass-band
Dunderhead at Karens Minde Kopenhagen, Denmark
… and next weekend Malmö, Sweden
New York 1990
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.
Rosenqvist showing his work and at the same time kindly taking care of us in his studio.
Frank Stella: Scarlatti and Bali Sculputure Series
Humble Mr Frank Stella telling us about his work and showing us his studio!
22 October 1925 – 12 May 2008
Remembering Rauchenberg, By Jim Lewis
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.
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!
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!
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?
… 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!
… 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!
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.
Karen Barone and Tony Barone… the greate party fixer!
