Carl G Torstenson

Carl G Torstenson born in Uppsala Sweden 1948
Worked at the the theater in stage design, sculpture and painting . Beginning in 1970.
Gerlesborgsskolan 1987, 1990
Sinse 1990 worked mostly with art projects but still sometime with the theaters.

Represented at cities and provinces for example in Uppsala, Umeå,
Göteborg , Västerås ,Östhammar, Solna, Stockholm, Wismar Germany and other places.

Project leader for and has also taken the initiative to start the”ARTEMIS” project
art & science in creative meetings ” for the Capital of culture 1996 - 2000
together with Ragnhild Brodow ,the project lasted in four years and around fifty artists and scientists
met and worked together in artprojects.

Has taken the initiativ to start the culturassosiation Konstvarning. (”Artwarning”) in Uppsala Sweden

Curator och organizer of the two big “Artp in Shoppingcenter” projects “OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM” 2006 in the
Gottsunda center
and the projekt “5 + 5 “i Forum gallerian. 2003 where a totally new public was reached
Art teacher at Wik art school and other schools

Chairman for KRO Uppsala 2004 - 2007 ( Swedish organization for artists)
Chairman for UKK Uppsala konstnarsklubb 1996 - 2004 ( Union for the artists in Uppsala

Public works:
* 1984 Almunge Högstadieskola Sculpture in marbel concrete and bronze 3m high.
* 1992 Kungsängstorg Sculpture groupe made in bronze “GRISBRUNNEN”
* 1995 Rasbo Vårdcentral wood relief in organic patterns from cells “LIFE” and
* 1995 colonn in Granit stone 3m high. ” REBORNED”
* 2000 Relief in mix media Öregrunds library” THE MEMORY OF SUNKEN SHIP”
* 2005-6 Entréhus 9st Lilla Sunnersta Uppsala Nine entrehouses in campus for international students.
The theme is the seven continents and each house represents one of them. “Culture meats nature”
* It is made in reliefs in all kinds of materials with three components in collage on each: culture, nature
and languish .Something written on the languish from all continents that only they can read.
Like a welcome for those from other countries that come for to stay.

mayor solo exhibitions and installations from 1990-2008

* -90 Galleri 1 Uppsala ” OTID ” paintings and sculpture.
* -91 Galleri Origo, Stockholm Sweden” ARKIPELAG “oil paintings and objects.
* -92 Galleri Vinden, Uppsala Sweden “BOARDERS” Water colour paintings.
* -93 Galleri 1 Uppsala ” RAMALAND ” or “The Mother of India” paintings and objects.
The Indian cow and the symbiosis man -animal
* -94 The Library gallery in Tierp ” BOARDERS ” paintings and sculpture.
A question about integration
* -95 Ekeby Qvarn Uppsala EVENTA II ” WIND ” sculpture installation. jury.A temple made of wood.
* -96 Ekeby Qvarn Uppsala EVENTA III ” MANKIND ” sculpture installation. Jury
* -96 ” GUIDES ” paintings and obj. at the 150 years anniversary in Bishop Hill. USA
* -97 Theater gallerie in Uppsala Sweden “ANDRUM” Poetic and sacred paintings and objects.
* -98 SLU (art union) Uppsala Sweden “FROM DUST” arceological wonderings and motives.
* -98 Bild och Form in Västerås Sweden”FROM DUST II” oil and water colourpaintings and sculpture
* -98 Wismar, Germany “VON DER ERDE” .Installation with existential questions, Minimalistic expression.
* -98 Enköpings Art hall Sweden ” ASKA ” .ASHES” Paintings and sculpture- a sacred room.
* -98 Konstfrämjandet Uppsala “ARCUS” existenciell paintings an objects about “how to die?
* 2000 Konstfrämjandet in Norrköping Sweden” ARCHIVE” Similar exhibition like above.
* 2001 mars Missionchurch in Uppsala Sweden” ARC”
* 2001 may. Ånghammaren Österbybruk GROW NOW Ltd 1. Wooden sculpture installation
Installation about : patentation on living material
* 2001 july.Järnboden in Harg upland GROW NOW Ltd2. Riceinstallation theme as number 1.
* 2001 sept.Galleri 1.Upsala GROW NOW Ltd 3. Riceinstallation theme as number 2.
* 2001 oct. Väsby Konsthall”Parasito” Riceobjects - installation
* 2003 Galleri Donoso Stockholm”THE LAST MEASURE” paintings
* 2003 5 + 5 Forumgallerian Uppsala “This is not a wedding” riceinstallation about the Iraq war.
* 2003 Galleri 1. Uppsala “THE LAST MEASURE II” paintings
* 2003 Gallari Infra Stockholm “CHECKPOINT CHARLIE” riceinstallation on floor about walls and boarders
* 2003 Bror Hjorths Hus Uppsala Sweden “THE GROWING GAME” Project-installation outdoors with “a one
armed bandit”. connected to growing artificial plants that were growing when you planted the right seeds.
* 2004 Husby Magasin Uppland Sweden “SADFIELDS” paintings
* 2004 Jury exhib. with UKK at Väsby art hall saml.utst.
* 2005 Drabanten Uppsala ” SAVED PATHES” and “Hapenings by the road” installations outdoor
* 2005 Botanical garden Uppsala UKK -50år”HÄXKONST” installation outdoors.
* 2006 Galleri Kvarnen Uppland paintings
* 2006 Gottsunda Center Uppsala “OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM” ris och träinstall about food.
* 2007 Tokyo National Sience Museum “Linné meets Japan”
fabric installation “FROM LEAF TO LETTER” about the evoulotion
* 2007 Gottsunda church, paintinginstallation
* 2007 Bror Hjorths Hus Uppsala ” Tokyo tur och retur” fabric installation “FROM LEAF TO LETTER
* 2007 Kyrkoprojekt i Norra Uppland “Linné möter Skaparen” Linne meats the Creator” installations in nine churches.
* 2007 Jukkasjärvi “Linné in ice” Sculptures in ice . interpretation of the Lapplandsresan.
* 2007 “The waters running” project together with the artcomunity KONSTVARNING (Art warning)event in the
Fyrisriver with fire sculptur,and exhib. utst på galleri Fram, exhib. on the Drabanten “Vattnet går”
*2008 Galleri 1. mars “UTMÄTT” paintings and Irono bjects.
Gottsunda church during easter on the eastertheme. Installation.
Stadsbyggn.kont. Konstförening “UTMATT” paintings and objects
Nicolaikyrkan i Nyköping “ATT MÄTA DET OMÄTBARA” TO MEASURE WHAT CAN NOT BE MASURED”
Installation about predestination and time.

Exhibition at TCG Nordica

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Live From Earth:Carl G Torstenson’s exhibition

TCG Nordica-UP Gallery
Opening: 2008.11.24, Monday, 20:00
Duration: 2008.11.24-12.24
tel: 0871-4114962
Add: TCG Nordica, Chuangku, Xibalu 101#, Kunming
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Carl G Torstenson born in Uppsala Sweden 1948
As an artist he is working with sculpture, painting, and installations, mostly conseptional art or art projects on a theme. In theater and museums he is working with stage design, costumes and more. He started at the theater forty years ago and had his first solo art exhibition in -73.
Since then there have been around fifty solo exhibitions, mostly in Sweden, but also in the USA, Germany, Finland , Japan and Norway.
Since -90 he has worked with his art only and “making rooms” is now in the center.
At first it was mostly impressionistic painting but from the beginning of the eighties the inner rooms slowly took over and the work with the theater and the art of his own was more and more influenced by each other.
He is now working in all materials, often in long time projects, often with existential problems like in the rice project Grow Now ltd that contains questions like who has the right to take patent on living materials, as seeds for example.
Rice is a material that he has bin using since -98 in many installations in various themes. One was about the Iraq war called “This is not a wedding”
Other themes have been“ Predestination” , what are we borne to be or how to live and similar questions.
All the exhibitions usually contain both paintings and objects.
Participation in many international projects like Eventa II, III, and V on themes like: “Wind” Water” and “Mankind”.
During the year -07 there were many art projects in churches, and the latest was in Nykoping called “To measure what can not be measured”.
Carl G Torstenson has also made many public assignments and then often used sculpture and worked in different materials as a medium.
For the artwork and coming exhibitions in Kunming and Sweden Carl G Torstenson has together with the artist Annika Haglund collected local materials like soil and indigo and other nature materials during a two and a half months journey, all the way by train and bus from Sweden through Mongolia to Beijing, Inner Mongolia and then small mountain villages down to Kunming.
Carl G Torstenson’s CV

Exhibition in TCG Nordica KUNMING
by Carl G Torstenson

“LIVE FROM EARTH”
The impressions for this exhibition that I have called “LIVE FROM EARTH” comes from the present yourney through Asia together with the artist Annika Haglund
The trip began more than three months ago in Sweden and then we have been traveling with train all the way through Russia , Mongolia , Inner Mongolia, to Beijing and all the way down to Kunming where we are right now and have been working in a studio at TCG Nordica, a fantastic and inspiring place to work at and with so very nice people !
For this artwork, my exhibition in Kunming and also for coming projects in Sweden we have during this long trip collected local materials such as earth in different colors like the deep red Yunnan earth , Indigo blue and other nature materials for to use in the artwork in different ways.
Along the way we have been staying long periods in small villages high up in the mountains and there lived by the minority people. We have seen them working with the earth. Planting and digging, weaving, dying the fabrics and many other things coming from nature. Working hard along the steep mountainsides and there making it possible to grow on the small terraces. Also seen they carry everything they need up and down these mountains.
This project is a tribute for to grow the earth as well as for them who work with the earth and live in symbiosis with nature.
Then there is this question, is it the last generation we now see that is putting there hands in the earth or in the pot of Indigo?
.On the feather way through the Asian countries, that after Kunming goes to Vietnam and Cambodia the plan is to work and do small installations along the way where it is possible. The plan is also then to use local materials.

opening:

The 2nd Kunming International Music Week

第二届昆明国际音乐周11月亮相荟萃音乐名家

2005年春天，TCG诺地卡已举办过北欧-云南爵士、现代乐音乐周，11位来自北欧三国的音乐家们，登台向昆明热情的乐迷们奉献了多场精彩的音乐会、举办了音乐讲座。整个音乐周获得了巨大的成功，使得昆明本地的音乐爱好者，得以品味来自格里格、西贝柳斯、阿巴、罗克塞特故乡的高品质音乐。作为上一届音乐周的延续，第二届昆明国际音乐周将于2008年11月24日—30日拉开帷幕。云南艺术学院与TCG诺地卡再度携手，共同邀请了12位来自西方6国的音乐家，既收拢了世界顶尖的古典音乐家，又将奉献当今的流行乐风。昆明乐迷将有机会沉醉在古典音乐表演中。其中包括挪威格莱美奖获得者”挪威第一大提琴”奥格﹒卡尔本（Aage Kvalbein），他在最近的三十年中，一直位居于挪威、乃至欧洲最优秀的大提琴家。第二届昆明国际音乐周的演出节目呈现出多样的特点，来自丹麦的玛丽安 G .尼尔森（女高音）和丹麦指挥家Nenia Zenana将携手与中国艺术家,云南苗族合唱团共同演出。我们将精心的向本地的音乐爱好者呈献一席可抚慰精神的音乐盛宴，让那纯净甜美的音色，清晰的和谐，悠扬自然，仿佛天籁之音徜徉于你我的心田。届时，受邀音乐家将举办音乐会、音乐大师班、音乐讲座以及音乐交流等多姿多彩的活动。

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前言

2008年是历史难以忘却的一年，它承载了许多 使人无法释怀的事件：大自然的灾害、意表人 类智慧与能力的奥运会，以及让人束手无策， 突如其来的金融风暴等。让我们亦悲亦喜，体 味生命无常的同时，又满怀对未来的无限向往。 音乐，是造物者赐予人类的特殊恩惠，它无形 态的流动，洗涤情怀、悦人魂魄、抚平忧伤、 激动心灵……奇妙的是，它能超越文化樊篱的 隔阂，陶冶不同语言、宗教人们的心灵，甚至 使之升华到一个不受媚俗世界辖制的领域，品尝到精神深度的美好。

2005年春天，TCG诺地卡已举办过北欧-云南爵士、现代乐音乐周（资料见这里），11位来自北欧三国的音乐 家们，登台向昆明热情的乐迷们奉献了多场精 彩的音乐会、举办了音乐讲座。整个音乐周获 得了巨大的成功，使得昆明本地的音乐爱好者， 得以品味来自格里格、西贝柳斯、阿巴、罗克 塞特故乡的高品质音乐。作为上一届音乐周的 延续，在2008这一厚重之年，TCG诺地卡与云南 艺术学院再度携手，共同邀请12位来自西方6国 的顶尖音乐家（其中包括挪威格莱美奖获得者 “挪威第一大提琴”奥格﹒卡尔本），同时， 同台演出的还有一个云南苗族合唱团以及当地 的音乐家。本着“以多种艺术形态激起对人类 价值的反思”为宗旨，我们将精心的向本地的 音乐爱好者呈献一席可抚慰精神的音乐盛宴。 我们希望透过优美的音乐，触摸每一个渴望而 又受惊的灵魂，把平安和快乐，如祥和的鸽子 降临其间，使人们眼目的视线超越天灾、人祸、 经济风暴，到达永恒之处！届时，受邀音乐家 将举办音乐会、音乐大师班、音乐讲座以及音 乐交流等多姿多彩的活动。 在此，向所有参与 预备和促进此次音乐周的朋友们献上最诚挚的 感谢！他们是云南艺术学院外办、音乐学院的 老师们；云艺文华学院的廖琦玉老师和同学们， 以及她多年辛勤帮助的苗族合唱团。如果没有 他们的参与及无私的奉献，整个活动将无法实现！

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第二届昆明国际音乐周日程安排

11月24日 星期一

长笛讲座——Christian Studler
长笛演奏会 晚8点 云南艺术学院演奏厅
“从传统到当代——法国长笛演奏的进程”
长笛： Christian Studler（瑞士）
钢琴： Belle James （美国）

11月25日 星期二

长笛演奏大师班 云南艺术学院

挪威通俗乐队——“尼斯湖老鼠”现场音乐会
时间：晚8:30 地点：创库源生坊
票价：40元/人

11月26日 星期三

长笛演奏大师班 云南艺术学院
挪威通俗乐队——“尼斯湖老鼠”现场音乐会
友情演出：TCG诺地卡“House”乐队
时间：晚7：30 地�%B

Dance Evening

Dance performance at Nordica this Saturday!
Hip hop, jazz, modern and traditional, performed by both Chinese and Americans.
They love to dance, and it shows! Nordica’s experienced dance group will make you want to dance in your chair, and at the same time give you a introduction to most of the popular dances.
Price: 10RMB Time: 20:00 PM Saturday the 15th of November

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