Ingela Ihrman talks about her exhibition Frutti di Mare at Malmö Konsthall
The title is in Italian, but to me, Frutti di Mare is something you call a pasta or a pizza where maybe some tinned clams and pre-peeled prawns swim in a sea of cheese. Frutti di Mare in Swedish is related to tutti frutti and Lasse Holm's canneloni macaroni hit. A 90s dream of something tropical to aspire to that might say more about those who long for it than the actual location on the Mediterranean or any other turquoise waters., says Ingela Ihrman about her ongoing exhibition at Malmö Konsthall.
Miguel Andrade Valdez in Mexico City
In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal.. The exhibition premiers a new series of painting and drawing on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind. The exhibition is titled la peil which means ”the skin”. Exhibition text by Art Insider PR founder Sofia Bertilsson.
Between us and the world, our skin embraces us, protects us from evil and holds us together like a bag of bones, blood, guts and neurons. Our skin is the house our body built that our mind started to fill with memories, emotions, foibles, fads and dreams. Room by room, it stores and archives, losing the battle against clutter that piles up in the attic. Where to put our teenage dreams? The books we read? Physical memories of hands held, someone else’s skin?
Ingela Ihrman at Malmö Konsthall
Fall 2023, Malmö Konsthall presents the largest exhibition of the internationally recognized Swedish artist Ingela Ihrman to date. With disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman's work tackles questions concerning the conditions of one's own existence. By donning sculptural costumes, fabricated by herself, the artist pretends to be someone else; a giant otter giving birth, a blooming giant water lily, a fig splitting in two.
From the Chalkworks to the Eel Grass Meadows - Anna Ling at Lunds konsthall
Lunds konsthall presents a retrospective exhibition with the artist Anna Ling, born in 1971 in Gothenburg and since many years living in Malmö. In the exhibition, which is on view throughout the summer, we meet the artist’s strong interest in nature and our relationship to it, and works that are characterised by both beauty and serious effects of climate change. We follow Ling's observations, from coral reefs to a local limestone quarry, in large, ink drawings and films, and through the artist's long-term field studies we also see the effects of the measures taken to restore nature. Ling has exhibited at Moderna Museet Malmö, GIBCA, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, as well as at Lunds konsthall. The exhibition runs May 20 - August 27, 2023.
New Book by Artist Sophie Tottie Published by Art and Theory Publishing
SOPHIE TOTTIE: AiWHEtL (catalogue and related works)
The world is always inevitably changing. At the same time, we humans look for patterns and regularities. AiWHEtL revolves around doing and thinking as a process of understanding, in which the result essentially cannot be owned but remains in constant change. (Sophie Tottie)
In Sophie Tottie’s recent work re-workings of previous work, for example material and leftover products like paint and brush cleaner is incorporated and reused in new work. Tottie’s works function as prisms that weigh, measure, and materialize something that seem to belong to an inner, intangible reality but which manifest themselves in an outer material and physical existence.
(Photo credit: Emil Fagander. Courtesy Art and Theory Publishing)
What does it mean to be human? Ingela Ihrman upcoming show at Malmö Konsthall
In a playful way, Ingela Ihrman’s work explores what it means to be human. With humour and sincerity, she lifts questions concerning identity and belonging by looking at different life forms and how we relate to one another. She focuses on strong emotions connected to everyday life, such as lust, longing and loneliness. Where: Malmö Konsthall. Dates: September 30 2023 - January 14 2024.
(Photo: Ingela Ihrman, One Fig, 2020. Video still)
New Residency for Creatives in Spain
Brugarol Group has launched Focus Foundation, a new art initiative in northeastern Spain. With the announced cultural activities directed by Pepe Baena Diví, Focus Foundation aims to foster cultural exchange and cross disciplinary creativity, and create opportunities for artists with diverse backgrounds and a meeting place where guests and visitors are invited to spend time in the particular landscape and community of Baix Emporda. (Photo Nacho Alegre)
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.
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