This Way to the Museum.
Look out for a new type of museum located in nature, with top collections and a restaurant bound to draw foodies as well as art lovers. Falsterbo Photo Art Museum is a new private museum in the beach resort of Falsterbo, just 25 min from Malmö and the bridge that connects to the international Copenhagen Airport. Collectors Christina and Claes Lindquist started to collect international photo art 15 years ago and soon got hooked
Memory, Legacy, Collaborations – artists and curators in Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia.
Join the discussion on Memory, Legacy, Collaborations – artists and curators in a discussion about Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia. How do we create, collaborate and understand our future inspired by artists? Teaming up with French Art 4 Collaborative Futures we invited art lovers, artists and art professionals to a virtual Summer Salon on July 7 2020 on Art & Society. We had the pleasure to be joined by curators Irena Popiashivili and Alex Fisher, artist Nino Kvrivishvili and Vladimir Miladinović. Now the digital Salons are available on Youtube.
Crowned Heads by Mr. FLOWERHeadZ
Listening to Caribbean legends and sharing his great-grandmother’s love for horticulture, artist Hugh Findletar has found a way to incorporate many passions into his glass works, made by master glass blowers in the furnaces of Murano and inspired by his childhood in Jamaica. His baroque FLOWERHeadZ are portrait busts of friends and muses, but also vases to fill with seasonal flowers.
Meditating in the Great Forest
American artist Martin Puryear celebrates the honest work done by one’s hands. The carved wood and the thatcher’s intimate knowledge of his craft. But his sometimes majestic sculptures also have rooms for conflicting stories of power and oppression and soft swelling and comforting shapes. Puryear has a long history with Sweden having studied in Stockholm in the 1960’s. That’s where a seated sculpture of a king by the Swedish artist Carl Milles caught his attention. The soft triangular shape gave form to his Meditation in a Beach Forest, 1996, for the sculpture park Wanås Konst – but headless, clothed in reed and forever sunk into a different state in the midst of a clearing in the woods.
Utzon Center – Architecture that Sets Sails
Jørn Utzon is famous for the Sydney Opera House that billows like sails in the harbor. But there’s another building that perhaps was closer to Utzon’s heart. Utzon Center was the last building that he designed in the city where he grew up on the northern tip of Jutland. And just as the opera in Sydney, the building in Aalborg is also inspired by the sailing ships that used to fill the harbor on the Limfjord. Utzon Center was completed in 20018 together with Utzon’s son Kim Utzon and houses temporary exhibitions on design and architecture and the Utzon Archives.
Vandkunsten gives us Better Lives
Let’s live smaller-scale, better lives. Let’s share more. Invite nature in. Let’s take charge, together. Leave things alone and see the beauty. Does it sound like the credo of our times? Yes but the fact is that it is our times that finally have caught up with Danish visionary architects behind Vandkunsten Architects, who call themselves a studio for drawing and work under a name that means “water art” or “water feature” such as a fountain. In fact those are the principles that Vandkunsten has been using since the 1970’s. At Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, a major exhibition explores Vandkunsten and the Danish interiors magazine Bo Bedre (Better Lives) and their influence on Danish architecture and interiors since the 1970’s.
Join the discussion about Art & Society
How do we create, collaborate and understand our future inspired by artists? Teaming up with French Art 4 Collaborative Futures we invited art lovers, artists and art professionals to a virtual September Salon on September 22 on Art & Society. We had the pleasure to be joined by the artists Mille Kalsmose, Jakob Fenger from the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX and Curator Alex Fisher. Now both the digital September Salon is available on Youtube.
From the Earth with Love of Old and New
The long tradition of working both experimentally and traditional with ceramics comes together in Denmark’s CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art a couple of hours from Copenhagen. As it grew out of its old dowager house, a contemporary extension, mostly underground to preserve the historic site, opened in 2015, by Kjaer & Richter collaborating with architect Niels Frithiof Truelsen, landscape by Wad and Henry Jensen A/S engineers. The results are an additional 1 500 m2 space for the museum and unobstructed views of the Lillebaelt sound from the sculpture park where a smaller glass and tile clad pavilion surfaces, snuck into the sloping ground, its façade partly made of artisanal tiles from Petersen Tegl.
The museum was originally founded by a group of ceramicists and is located in an area with a rich history in ceramics and brickwork. Less known than the famous Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, CLAY Museum offers a fresh take on how to experience contemporary creativity and heritage, with architecture and landscaping that merge function harmoniously with nature and a historic site.
A bout du souffle with Kimsooja
Art that lets us in, opens space for our inner self, our thoughts and reflections and turn our gaze inwards. In the sculpture park Wanås Konst in Sweden, Kimsooja’s immersive installation To Breathe in the massive Hay Barn from the early 18th century makes us see by using empty space. We wander out on a mirrored surface that reflects our surroundings, dazzling and dizzying at first, listen to a soundtrack of the artist breathing and humming and find a painting made from scraps of textile stuffed into an ancient wall marked by time.
Mr. FLOWERheadZ and the Four Elements
Artist Hugh Findletar came across glass blowing on a trip to Kenya many years ago. Fascinated by the craft he eventually ended up working with a Master at a furnace in Murano, one of the islands in the lagoon of Venice. The craft of glass blowing uses the four ancient elements, fire, earth, water and air to create transparent and jewel like objects capturing the light and imagination.
Known as Mr. FLOWERheadZ, Findletar’s unique vases are favorites of Italian fashionistas. His beautiful and humorous vases, called FLOWERheadZ, are portraits of family and friends. Buying one entails the pleasant task of filling them with flowers just as the artists does. Currently his work is featured in Nomad Palais Bulles in partnership with Phillips Auction by The Spaceless Gallery.
FLOWERheadZ for Fall
Bring a fantasy garden inside this fall, a job easily done with Hugh Findletar’s, a.k.a. Mr. FLOWERheadZ, vases and glass objects. The vases, the FLOWERheadZ, are just as beautiful with or without flowers and will bring joy to every day. Findletar works with the best craftsmen in the traditional glass furnaces of Murano. Each vase is unique, a portrait of a friend or source of inspiration for the artist.
A favorite of Italian fashionistas, Findletar has done collaborations with Pomellato and Boyy, as well as showing in Parisian couture fleurist Stéphane Chapelle’s in Paris. Lucky collectors in Scandinavia can find his one off pieces such as the FLOWERheadZ in the hip Copenhagen concept store Holly Golightly.
Outdoors & Immersive with Kimsooja
This is the summer art lovers took to the great outdoors. And is there a better place to experience contemporary art? At the sculpture park Wanås Konst in Sweden, Kimsooja’s solo exhibition Sowing Into Painting, makes you follow flax, used in the painter’s canvas and paint, on a journey through textile craft on different continents, a planted flax field that bloomed, ripened and is harvested, to the Laundry Field of 100 vintage, white, decorated bed sheets strung up between the majestic beech trees in the sculpture park.
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