#Arvika konsthall

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Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Mycel / Mycelium – A large collaborative drawing (9 x 1,5 meters) in black ink of a mycelium structure that grows over the paper with alterations in shapes, structure and density.

In the collaborative work with MASU we often find our process to be rhizomatic like a fungi mycelium and in the last couple of years we have also worked a lot in forests with our sprawling, spreading wooden structures. The material we build with and move around between sites in the ongoing project (Material) Site Recordings have also hosted several different fungi as they reside in places where things grow. The drawing Mycel / Mycelium comes out of a wish to work and move across the paper over time like mycelium, in an attempt to be the mycelium rather than to illustrate it.  

In the process of this work, we cut a 10 meter roll of drawing paper in half and worked on each half simultaneously. We decided on black ink in bottles and calligraphy tips as the tools. We have shared the rolls of paper and continued wherever there was space, connecting the different tracks, traces and patterns. The drawing exists within, but is not limited to, the limits of the paper, and could continue to grow in any direction.

The drawing is both a dialogue with our ongoing practice as well as its own work.

#ink #black #konst #art #exhibition #installation #mycelium #rhizome #drawing #collage #drawing method #dialogue #collaboration #structure #sculpture #Arvika konsthall #konsthall #arvika

[mattiasdrawings]

Mycelium drawing.

Collaborative drawing work with MASU for upcoming exhibition at Arvika Konsthall in late July.

#sketchbook #journal #art journal #journaling #colors #drawing #collage #art #artist #spray paint

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Inger Gauthier - Konstnär

Inger Gauthier (1926-2016), svensk konstnär.

Gauthier studerade vid Konstfacks aftonskola under ett års tid och vid Anders Beckmans reklamskola i Stockholm, och var samtida student med Carl Anton, som senare skrev om deras vänskap i låten "Ser Du Mönstret”. Hon ställde ut separat på bland annat Smålands museum, Alvesta konsthall, Värmlands museum, Arvika Nyheters galleri, Arvika Konsthall, Karlskoga konsthall, Konstnärshuset i Stockholm, och Stadshuskuben i Falkenberg. Hon medverkade i samlingsutställningar med bland annat Värmlands konstförening på Värmlands museum, Unga tecknare på Nationalmuseum, Stockholmssalongen och Vårsalongen på Liljevalchs, Svart på vitt på Konstakademin, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kulturhuset i Stockholm, Jönköpings läns museum och 16 Arvikakonstnärer på Riksdagshuset i Stockholm i Stockholm.

Hon tilldelades Statligt stipendium sex gånger, Bildkonstnärsfonden, Föreningen Norden, Svenska institutet i Aten, Margrethe Hansens Stipendie, Ateljéstipendium Villa San Michele, Central Culturel Suédois i Paris, Carina Ari-Ateljén i Paris samt ett flertal resestipendium.

Hennes offentliga arbeten bestod av stafflikonst för vårdcentralen i Arvika,

Hennes konst bestod av stafflikonst och teckningar i kol och svartkrita, blyerts och färgkritor, grafik och applikationer.

Gauthier är representerad vid Smålands museum, Värmlands museum, Sveriges Radio i Stockholm, Söderby sjukhus, S:t Eriks sjukhus, Solna kulturnämnd, Tingshuset i Visby, Stockholms sjukvårdsrotel, Sveriges allmänna konstförening, Västmanlands, Jönköpings, Malmöhus, Värmlands Kalmar, Hallands och Kronobergs läns landsting, Karlstad, Årjängs, Jönköpings, Växjö, Kisa och Falkenbergs kommuner.

Gauthier gifte sig 1962 med Roger Gauthier (1913-1985), även han verksam konstnär. De var bosatta i Sulvik, Arvika på torpet Femton Öre från mitten av sjuttiotalet, och Gauthier bodde kvar på torpet till kort före sin död.

#life #bio

[masu-projects]

Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Parasit / Parasite – A site specific installation out of wooden planks salvaged from the recycling depot (Mossebergs återvinning) painted black for a greater contrast to the space. The structure inhabits the larger of the two rooms of the exhibition space and reaches towards the ceiling and the second floor.

We had a slow process of drawing with wood in the space where each line is drawn in an ongoing conversation about sequence, rhythm and the spatial. The installation occupies the main floor and reaches up on to the balcony that offers visitors another view of the space. The structure is self-supported from the floor and up and sits as its own entity in the old baroque room careful not to touch the delicate walls and stucco details. Parasit / Parasite was a temporary site-specific structure that lived only at Arvika konsthall and returned to Mossebergs depot after the exhibition.

#wood #konst #art #exhibition #installation #mycelium #rhizome #drawing #collage #drawing method #dialogue #collaboration #structure #sculpture #Arvika konsthall #konsthall #arvika

[masu-projects]

Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

Månader / Months – Seven site-specific collages of paper pieces mounted directly on the wall.

The pieces of paper comes from our ongoing project (Material) Site Recordings that is a nomadic sculpture / installation project. It has been moving between sites since 2018 and in September 2021 it moved to a forest by Hedgärdessjön in Skene where MASU now runs a Forest Lab, a collaborative studio. On the site is a stack of wooden laths that are the primary sculpture material of the project. In November 2021 we placed 7 large drawing / watercolor papers in the layers of wood, letting it rest over nine months to open for a collaborative drawing process together with weather, water, the forest and its various inhabitants. In July 2022 we had used material enough to reach the layers of paper that had been hidden. We harvested the papers, both smaller pieces and larger sheets.

Månader / Months are collages where we built new drawings from pieces that are marked, bruised and partly dissolved with marks from weather, fungi, pine needles and insects. The collages held a temporary constellation at the exhibition and will continue to be a part of the (Material) Site Recordings project.

In October, as we dismantle a sculpture at Rydals museum and return the laths to the forest, we will place new papers in the stack and start this part of the project over again.

#forest #konst #art #exhibition #installation #mycelium #rhizome #drawing #collage #drawing method #dialogue #collaboration #structure #sculpture #Arvika konsthall #konsthall #arvika

[masu-projects]

Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall

31/7 – 10/9 2022 with an open work process a week before opening where visitors could see the work grow, a music piece written and performed by Emanuel Blom at the opening and a finissage of the exhibition with a moderated talk with local politicians, the day before the Swedish election, about culture politics in Arvika.

The exhibition occupies two separate spaces and consists of three works, all part of our drawing practice:

Parasit / Parasite – A site specific installation out of wooden planks salvaged from the recycling depot (Mossebergs återvinning) painted black for a greater contrast to the space. The structure inhabits the larger of the two rooms of the exhibition space and reaches towards the ceiling and the second floor.

Mycel / Mycelium – A large collaborative drawing (9 x 1,5 meters) in black ink of a mycelium structure that grows over the paper with alterations in shapes, structure and density.

Månader / Months – Seven collages of paper pieces mounted directly on the wall. The pieces of paper comes from our Forest Lab in Skene, where it has been resting in layers of wood for nine months, allowing the forest to make marks.

From the presentation of the exhibition:

This exhibition is mainly about drawing; about traces on paper and in space.

It could perhaps be possible to imagine a landscape, one that is simultaneously internal and external, one that moves between and thru, holds together and dissolves.

This landscape is both vast and open where everyone has a place, as well as very very small as it grows in a slow movement underground, and however one approaches it is not possible to grasp it all at the same time. This landscape is a rhizome that has no real beginning and no real ending. There is no center nor a given periphery. Everything exists at the same time.

Ofcourse one can move thru it here, sometimes only in the mind and sometimes with one’s body. Each experience is unique.

We have chosen to explore this landscape thru drawing.

We explore drawing as material, trace and method. There is searching in the drawing practice, a way of slowly testing relations between lines, surfaces, densities and connections. In the explorative drawing we find a presence that liquifies time and the place, opening up for possibilities to co-exist, wait, participate or just watch.

The three separate works in the exhibition Materiella teckningar / Material drawings are all part of the same narrative, they stem from the same questions about the things that grow, co-exist and relate, as well as leaving traces, transform and decompose.

#politics #politicians #konst #art #exhibition #installation #mycelium #rhizome #drawing #collage #drawing method #dialogue #collaboration #structure #sculpture #Arvika konsthall #konsthall #arvika

[mattiasdrawings]

Mycelium drawing work with MASU. We are developing new work for show at Arvika Konsthall (Sweden) in late July.

#drawing #ink #mycelium #rhizome #art #contemporary drawing #stopmotion #animation