Albert Amelin
Clas Hake
Nils Carlsson Milionen
Solveig Stampe, Moder Jord
Nils Carlsson Milionen
Ivan Jerdel
This week I had the opportunity
to be invited to an art club here in Gothenburg and visit the SKF union school hall
or workshops club, this union club has a huge art collection of Albert Amelin
and other artists. I have always liked Albert Amelin but I have never seen so
many of his paintings at the same time and I really really like what I was
seeing. It was great to get close and see his impasto painting, it was really thick
layer I can tell and you have to back to see the images in full scale, if you
look close you only see paint a lot of thick paint. The room and the area was
also very very unique and interesting it was a touched of the 70s.
The artist that I
didn´t exist (off course I don´t know all the artist and I´m terrible bad at
names of artist too, I´m not a namedropping person at all) was Solveig Stampe,
Solveig Stampe is represented at this place with a painting with the name;
Moder Jord/ Earth Mother, I really really like it a lot, I always fall for the
things that has something dark, a strong message willingly with a twist.
Manfred Leuschner guide us around in the hall and
talk about the artist and the art and why it has land up at SKF, this is art
for the industrial worker.
Manfred and I spook before the tour started and we
had a companion in common, my friend Lasse was a college of Manfred, and the
world is small sometimes.
When Manfred had the speech of SKF and the history
about the company SKF and what they have been doing and the how the art had
landed there he mention that “smycket” and he had a common companion, he didn´t
remember my name but he remember that I was working with jeweler/smycken, so under
that evening on the guided tour my name was, smycket. I think it is a great
name and if I someday will have an artist name it will be Smycket Lindblom.
Nils
Carlsson Milionen another great artist that was represented at this place, he
had done a comment on Franco, a very strong paining I think and as the painting
by Solveig Stampe it touched me.
Two less
good things with this art collection is (I think) that it´s not a catalogue
over the entire artist and their art, I asked about it, but I´m not sure that I
get an answer to it. The last thought about it that it has been great if all
the great art had been market with the artist name, because when you see
something “new” you want to know who has done it, I asked about it and they had
a policy that “ you don´t mark you paintings/art at home” this is the same,
this art will just be here for pleasure… I don´t agree with that argument,
first, at home you know the artist and you can be able to answer if someone ask
you about your art, this is a cultural treasure and it is important that we
remember the story and the year they was made. Even if it not a public hall,
the industrial workers can be interesting and it could be great to a have a catalogue
to look at and show others a catalogue to be proud by.
An absolutely
great evening with a lot of interesting information about SKF and the painting
and other art they have there in the union hall.
Here you
can see reportage from SKF verkstadsklubbs collection.
Lilla Brattön is
connected to SKF
http://www.lillabratton.com/
pastos, konstterm använd om tjock färgmassa
och framför allt om målningssätt (impasto) där färgmassans 'kropp'
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