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Galleri Upsala 1810
Svartbäcksgatan 21
753 32 Uppsala
Sweden

'STREAKS OF COLOUR'

Painting and drawing are my main techniques, but I like to work in mixed materials with chalk, spray, templates and textiles. Colour is what  comes first - when I find the nuances, the contrasts, the luminosity, then I also find the shapes. The political '68 affected me in different directions and made me falter before I stood steadily at the easel.  Nowadays, I think that each theme, each artwork, each intention requires its expression, its image, - the color, shape, and content.
Lena Wahlstedt
February 2018

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GALLERI UPSALA 1810
Svartbäcksgatan 21
753 32 UPPSALA

Kenneth Engblom is a painter whose art is mostly inspired by old houses, churches and towers which he has spotted during his travels in Italy, Spain, Estonia, China and other countries. He prefers to show his art in most unexpected places like in the catacombs of the Crypt Gallery in London, the old cable factory in Helsinki, the antique furnace in Deruta, the Glyptotheque in Tartu, the medieval castle tower in Paide, the Forsby-Köping limestone cableway or the open air museum of Mannaminne.
This is the first time for the artist to exhibit...

The opening takes place in Värdshuset (the restaurant)

Cecilia Ciscar has taken on the project to fill tram nr. 143 from Norrköping with passengers. The tram retired in 2000 and found a resting place in Ångermanland 2 years later, far from its place of birth and far from its workplace.
In the summer of 2018 the visitors to Mannaminne will meet Cecilia Ciscar's faces, which together with the tram will become one work of art. The 'streetcar faces' observe the wide entrance of this open-air museum created by Anders and Barbro Åberg.
The simplicity of our artist's faces is apparent. The pursuit o...