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

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
www.tcgnordica.com

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:

Johansson’s exhibition opened in Simao!

5 Nov. 2008. Swedish artist Janeric Johansson’s exhibition opening at Simao/Pu’er Teacher Collage Art Gallery in Simao, the southern part of Yunnan, China was a great success!

Johansson has previously worked as Gallery Director at TCG Nordica.

Simao is famous in China art circles for the skillful woodcarving technique developed in the area, that is still passed on to new students in Simao schools.

Madeleine Aleman: Colourful China

Colourful China - Madeleine Aleman’s recently works in Kunming

TCG Nordica-UP Gallery, Kunming, China
Opening: 2008/11/1, 20:00
Exhibition duration: 2008/11/1–11/22
Tel: 0086-871-4114962
Add:TCG Nordica, Xibalu 101#, Kunming, Yunnan.
www.tcgnordica.com

My experience as an A.I.R at TC/G Nordica in Kunming, China August - November 2008

It is a great adventure for me to be here in Kunming, which also is my first time in Asia. My intention of coming here was to put myself in a completely new context in purpose to change and grow. It took me about one month to “land” and get an everyday-life. Not knowing any Chinese even going to the shop to buy food is a trial: What is hidden in this beautiful package, beans, nuts or something else? I really appreciate not understanding though, it forces me to be present and communicate in other ways than with words.

I am happy that I am participating in Nordica’s program for residency in many ways: To immediately have good housing and a studio near other artists, to have a lot of nice people that helps me to get things I need, to be introduced to artists, visit their studios and be invited to exhibitions and all that with interpreter! Also to follow what’s going on at Nordica’s cultural centre and now, last but not least, have the opportunity to make an exhibition to share the outcome of the residency!

Actually I had about 2 months of intense work in the studio, since the first was “landing” and the last will be some travelling. The work from this period is diverse. Since I want to share my process I am not taking away pieces to make it look more coherent. I started with the “Kaleidoscope-paintings”, something I felt was easy, wanted to integrate China with Sweden, then the first idea leads to next and so on… I wanted to use all my new impressions, my minority clothes, paper cuts and Chinese characters.
I get inspired every day when I walk from my home to the studio on Xiba lu, now even called “My street”. This lovely throng of people playing, cooking, washing, working…nice smiles from old and young, children waving their hands and says: “Hello!”. Smells from food, the bakery, colours of fantastic plastic, vegetables and clothes…I love Kunming!

Do you want to see more? Please visit my webpage: www.aleman.se

Thanks to all nice staff at Nordica, the lovely Kunming citizens and to you that visit my exhibition!
Special thanks to:
Luo Fei, for all interesting conversations about art, your lecture on Chinese contemporary art and that you took me to visit artists.
Tian Yao, for your help with so many different things, for interpreting, for bringing me on exhibition openings and other joyful events.

With love, Madeleine Aleman

>>>Madeleine Aleman’s CV

exhibition space

Madeleine Aleman

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am interested in integration and want to combine things that do not naturally exist side by side. Earlier I worked on gender, lately more on ethnic integration. It can, for example, be an African woman that needs water and therefore is placed by a Nordic lake or Arabic ornaments together with festival Swedish Star-boys. I even mix styles and techniques. I like traditional style together with kitsch – to integrate “high and low”. In second-hand shops I find touristic things from different cultures which I glue together into “Multi-cultic-objects” Twins also interests me. My siblings are twins and them always having each other, identifying with each other both fascinated and woke my envy as a child… I like the mirror effect, when objects are repeated and form patterns. Working a lot with twin-motifs developed the pictures into “Kaleidoscopes”. What happens if I double the twins? They became four and formed symmetric compositions, like the ancient tradition of Mandalas that exists in different cultures.

Ideas often start with something I see: a person, a thing or a view that stimulates my associations. Even the material can turn me on as well as a colour. I manifest my visual idea, trying not to analyse before I am done, because my mind is so adult-like and I want a more direct expression. My art does not have a message to the beholder. I only want to share my visual world and I am happy if it in someone arouses feelings of wonder, playfulness and hope.

artist website: www.aleman.se

MADELEINE ALEMAN

Born 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm and Dalarna.
Member of the Swedish Artists´ National Organization.

EDUCATION:
University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm 1996-2000
Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm 1995-1996
The International Art School, Stockholm 1994-1995

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Wahlmanska huset, Hedemora 2008
Gallery Ingela S, Stockholm 2007
The Music Museum of Stockholm 2001
Glasbruket, Stockholm 2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Art Fair, Sollentuna/Stockholm 2007
Edsvik Art Gallery, Stockholm 2006
Art Gallery, Stockholm 2004
Rosendals Garden, Stockholm 2001
Gallery Gamle Ski, Oslo (three selected Swedish artists) 2001
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
TC/G Nordica, Kunming, China 2008 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, England 2009
La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain 2009 Gallery Gora, Montreal, Canada 2010

PURCHASED BY:
Uppsala County Council, Sweden 2007
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 2006
The County of Ski, Norway 2001
Medborgarskolan, Stockholm, Sweden 2001

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
TC/G Nordica, Kunming, China, 4 months 2008
Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain, 1 month 2009

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS:
Stipendium, Helge Ax:son Johnsson Foundation, 2003
Stipend, Artist-in-residence, Can Serrat, Barcelona 2008

PROFESSIONAL:
Viktor Rydberg High School ,Aesthetic program, Stockholm, Teacher of Studio Art, 2003-
Folkuniversitetet, Studio Art School, Stockholm, Teacher of Studio Art, 1999-2006

Studio Art Workshop leader for Bildkraft, Stockholm, 2002-
Stadsmuséet National Museum, Stockholm, Leader for Art workshop for kids on “Tiljan”, 1997-1999
Featured in Swedish National Radio :”Tendens” P1, about “dreams and inner visions”, 2002
Certificated Art Therapist after studies at NIARTE, 2001-2004
Stagedesign assistent at The Royal Dramatical theatre, Stockholm, 1980-1982 and The Royal Opera house, Stockholm, 2002
Original illustrater, Visucom, Stockholm, 1980-1981

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