Friday, May 20, 2011

Alingsås Tidning 2011-05-21...

FOTO: BOSSE ÅSTRÖM
FÖRBEREDELSER. Britta Kleberg (t.v.), och Katrin Bawah ordnar med det sista inför lördags vernissage. Färgstark utställning 2011-05-21 ALINGSÅS



Alingsås Tidning 2011-05-21


Färgprakt. Det är vad besökarna kommer mötas av när portarna till konsthantverksutställningen Vidöppet slås upp i dag.

När kulturhuschef Birgitta Westergren Lenken och konsthantverkaren Britta Kleberg i februari började leta efter intressanta utställare till sommarens exposition på Alingsås konsthall fanns en tydlig utgångspunkt.
– Vi ville ha en konsthantverksutställning med färg och form, säger Birgitta Westergren Lenken.
De tio utställarna, som samtliga är verksamma i Västsverige, arbetar inom en rad olika fält alltifrån glaskonst, till textilier och lampor. Men färgrikedomen i de utställda objekten är en gemensam nämnare.
– Det finns så mycket färglöst i samhället i stort, när det gäller hus, inredning och kläder. Jag kallar mig färgfundamentalist, säger Britta Kleberg, som också bidrar till utställning med lampor.
Katrin Bawah, som ställer ut stickade kläder, håller med.
– När jag har utställning brukar folk komma och säga och säga ’åh, så fint’, men har du något i grått, säger Katrin Bawah.
Är folk lite fega när det gäller färg?
– De är fruktansvärt fega, säger Katrin Bawah.

Birgitta Westergren Lenken tror att utställningen, som är uppe hela sommaren, kommer att locka en strid ström av besökare.
– Det är många uttryck representerade, och mycket att titta på. Och sedan går allt att köpa, säger Birgitta Westergren Lenken.

Mårten Blom

http://www.alingsastidning.se/puff_visa.asp?id=8366&sidnamn=ALINGSÅS

Monday, May 16, 2011

VIDÖPPET, Alingsås konsthall...

Finally I can present and invited you ALL to the opening of the coming up exhibition VIDÖPPET.
I hope to see you there!



Välkommen till vernissage av
VIDÖPPET
lördag 21 maj kl 11 – 15.
Invigning kl 13 i närvaro av konstnärerna.


Alingsås konsthall

VIDÖPPET
konsthantverk
21 maj - 3 september

Alingsås konsthall
441 81 Alingsås
Besöksadress: Södra Ringgatan 3
Telefon: 0322 - 61 65 98

http://www.alingsas.se/uppleva-gora/vidoppet


The participants and the sites there you can see their work…


Katrin Bawah,
textil http://www.katrinbawah.se/

Anita Carlsson, keramik http://www.lerverk.se/medlemmar/a_carlsson.html

Ulf Celén, trä http://www.ulfcelen.se/Ulf_Celen/Blog/Blog.html

Bibbi Forsman, keramik http://www.bibbiforsman.se/

Gunilla Hallberg, textil http://www.textileartdesign.com/

Helena Kaiser, glas
http://www.glascraft.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21&Itemid=7

Britta Kleberg, textil belysning http://www.brittakleberg.se/

Ida Lindberg, smycken http://idalindberg.tumblr.com/

Paula Lindblom, smycken
http://paula-lindblom.blogspot.com/

Elin Tollbom, glas http://www.elintollbom.se/Start.html

Mona Wallström, smycken http://www.monawallstrom.se/

Sunday, May 15, 2011

ready to show...

Finally… ready to show; ready to use a brooch with a donkey… We have no donkeys in Sweden, may be some in some vivarium…

hoya carnosa… or in Swedish; porslinsblomma…

This one prides me among my plants at home, I love when it blossom and spread a lovely scent in the evenings…

sunshine, rain and quality time with my vacuum cleaner…

Today I have a day indoors; the weather is howsoever today so it’s a great day to get things done at home.

a journalist asked me...

Today I was represented in DN, Dagens Nyheter. Yesterday the journalist asked me if I have been influence by the election campaign, No is my answer; I hope it will be a change, but I already know my point of view.

embrace by a hippo… sun and folk festival…

Yesterday, a nice and funny day with my friends Anita and Therese…

Saturday in Gothenburg city, a lot of things was going on, first it was a fair trade city day, Gothenburg have applied for being an environmental certification city and yesterday it happen. I’m proud to be a member of the city when they taking care of the environmental… But some other things in this city could be much better…as the public transport and the way the companies handle (västtrafik) the people that travels by free/no tickets passages… also the music in our streets and the public art in our public spaces could been better and more tolerant for this kind of spontaneous happenings, I think.

Yesterday was the day before the recall election here in the west of Sweden, in the main election 2010 something went wrong and today, Sunday we have to walk back to the ballot box… Hopefully this election will have a better result for people as me this time, I hope for a result too the left this time. The city crawl of long-distance politician, the policing was massive this day. I view some of them, most from the right wing and they I don’t like at all and yesterday I wish I had some rotten tomatoes in my bag, so I could throw them at the representing from the SD, Sverige demokraterna/Sweden Democrats, they are evil people every one of them and it’s a shame that the walk our streets.
I think we have to be wear of where the society is going with this kind of thoughts and acting that this evil people stands for, whey do they get votes in the end???

The nice things this day were that we discover new nice shops and coffee bars… I got a feeling of Camden in London meets my favourites areas in Copenhagen and that we got a new interesting and cosy place in the middle of Gothenburg city. I can recommend this area, take a walk and sit down and have a cup of coffee or buy a beautiful flower or what ever, “just be” is a good advice…

www.FloramorochKrukatos.se

www.damatteo.se

www.artelleriet.se


I bought a seahorse in porcelain, I am a big fan of seahorses and I see them as some kind of totem.

All the shops in the inner city had moved out into the streets and it was a lovely atmosphere with a lot of people all over the place.

ideas...

Work in progress…
This is things that I working with, coming up with ideas how to bring them into the jewellery world…

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

fika in the sun...

Yesterday was a perfect summer day, I run into my friend and college Janina Kurp and we took a ”fika” in the “old” parts of Gothenburg, Haga.

Fika is the same as a coffee break.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

using moose dropping for creativity…

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sun, coffee… and surf…

Today, a lovely summer day in the Gothenburg archipelago, the water was too cold for me, 12 degree, but a lot of people took a bath.

Can you see the faces in the plank?!

Mikiko Minewaki...

Here at the great jewellery site Klimt02 you can find more colourful, playful jewellery made by Mikiko Minewaki

I felt some kind of connection with my own way of thinking and working with my own pieces when I see Mikiko´s jewellery pieces and read her statement.

http://www.klimt02.net/jewellers/index.php?item_id=8421


Mikiko Minewaki statement

my idea come from.......

Anything hides a good form. I am making my pieces by the work of cutting off plastic goods.

Any object by being pieced can become wearable.
Things previously without connection to the body can become wearable to it by this simple operation.
I was born in the countryside of Japan.
Every day I picked flowers and leaves from the fields and made jewellery- necklaces, rings, crowns- from them.
This feeling is the source of my pieces.

One day I found the natural forms were hidden in plastic products.
So I started to pick the parts from my daily objects, and I keep searching for new forms in my everyday things.

It is happy to me if you could enjoy such a point of view when you saw my pieces.

Now,I have a pen with my hand but when we see it the next time, it may be a neck chains!


Ring: Lighter's 2001
Disposable lighters
3 x 2,5 cm

Necklace: Plachain 2004
Curler
25 x 25 cm



Here is my own statement;

Creative process - statement

I experience colour and form in most things around me. Inspiration is everywhere, a meeting, a form, a feeling, a reflection, a motion and a text. Nothing is too small and insignificant to be important, everything has a meaning…I am curious about life!

Contemporary innovative jewellery.

I make unique sculptural pieces, that when not seen on the body can be appreciated as sculpture, in your home, hung in the window or placed on a shelf, everything is possible; it’s just your imagination that draws the line.

My main focus for material is often found in my surroundings, at home, walking in nature and at flea markets.
For me it is vitally important to give a piece a “new” value, not just choosing a “conventional” material. I like to take these common place materials and move them into a jewellery context.

I want the original material and its shape to be recognisable, firstly appearing as a piece of jewellery, but with a closer look to reveal things about everyday life.
I’m interested in how the objects I create interacts with the human body and how it is read and exists when it’s not connected to the body, a separate piece without a back or a front, it could be either.

I like the scale that jewellery allows me to work in. Fitting closely to the body, we can use the human form as a mobile showcase to tell a story, show a statement, feel beautiful or special, or as some kind of trademark for our life’s, our everyday existence.