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By Ingwar Åhman-Eklund. Part of the 2018 Art promenade at the arte gallery in Österhaninge, Galleri Kyrkskolan.

Where Roads Meet

That is the name of this artwork by Titti Hassela. From the 2016 Art promenade or Konststigen, at the Kyrkskolan gallery. The theme this year was meeting. I don't think I could have guessed that. The guy in the second photo was our guide. He was good as he had a few words to say about all the artworks. Here it was something about the artists husband finding a box up on the attic filled with Christmas balls.

Collaborative Painting

The theme at this years Art promenade (Konststigen), at the Kyrkskolan gallery is Meetings. Marie-Anne Kronqvist invited anyone who wanted to participate in her artwork. When this collaborative painting is done 52 people will have helped create this work of art.

Darkness and light

The theme at this years Art Promenade (Kulturstigen), at the Kyrkskolan Art Gallery in Österhaninge is Darkness and Light. (Ljus och mörker). One of the artists, Marianne Kopamees decided to use Gargamel and a few smurfs in her installation! First photo shows the dark room with Gargamel and his cat Azrael, where the long shadows exists. Second photo shows the lit up room with the smurfs, where playfulness and joy exists. Oh, and fun fact, the tree that you can see on the wall here is the toothache tree that I have photographed a couple of times.

Oh no, my phone is dead!

I took the bike down to the gallery in Österhaninge. Wanted to see if I could find something of interest at this years art promenade around the gallery garden. This was the piece that spoke to me. It is called Upplyst, made by Johanna Rosendahl. It's all about our relationship to the mobile phone/cell, whatever you call it. The smart-phones rule many peoples lives today. There's also a poem here but I didnt have the energy to translate that I have to check my emails!

Careful careful...

...don't play near the well. If I dreamed many nights that I fell into and down, down towards the dark I couldn't breath. Close to panicking, then a deep breath of relief, it was just a dream.
This installation was made by Titti Hassela. From the 2014 Art promenade in Österhaninge. The theme this year is Dreams.
Oh, and I shot both these photos with the 85mm lens using the Brenizer method.

Contemplating Mother

I have visited and photographed the annual Art Promenade at the gallery in Österhaninge for ten years now. The gallery is called Galleri Kyrkskolan. The theme this year is Dreams. Two of the artists had the same exact idea. Mother & Child. This sculpture that stands in the green garden next to the coffee tables was made by the well known sculptor Sam Westerholm.

Friendship

The theme this year for the Art Promenade at the Kyrkskolan gallery in Österhaninge is Vänskap, Friendship. I got a friendly reminder to visit the promenade last week when I met the chairman of the artists at my favorite cafe, and a few days later I headed that way. Thirteen works of art can be found around the gallery and near the Medieval church. I think I managed to document most of them, and here they all are in a slideshow. Flickr has undergone some big changes so sometimes the slideshow will malfunction, if so just try it again.

Who will lead us to a better future?

My third post from this years art promenade in Österhaninge. This is a sword stuck in a table made of stone. The theme this year is crisis. The two artists, Per Hillbom and Inga-Lill Georgsson asks us who will be the person that will lead us out of the current crisis by removing the sword from the stone. I don't have an answer for that! Shot with The Nifty Fifty.

Quick, give me a pill

I think it is safe to say that the readers of this blog don't care much about art. But here we go again. This is my second photo from this years Art Promenade. This interpretation of this years theme was made by Annie Forsberg. The theme this year is...

Pyramids

The annual art promenade at the gallery in Österhaninge opened this weekend. Special bonus points if you can figure out the theme for 2012. It would be impossible by just looking at this artwork by Anders Reuterswärd, but you never know, you might guess it anyway. But I really don't think so.

Facebook Friends

It's easy to add new friends via Facebook. But often they will just be "digital" friends, and you will never meet them IRL.

Klaus Appelt.

The theme at the 2011 Art Promenade is Meetings.

Fully Charged?

Oh, yes, so we could be in for a long evening :-)


A meeting in the digital world, at least that is how the artist Klaus Appelt sees it. From the 2011 Art Promenade at the gallery in rural Österhaninge. The theme this year is Meetings. I think Klaus feels that online meetings are not as good as the ones IRL.

The Board

This is the board. The guy in the hat with the moustache is the chairman. His name is Kjell Kronqvist. I met the board at a recent visit to the art gallery in Österhaninge, when I had a closer look at the 2011 Art Promenade. The theme this year is Meetings. This artwork was made by Marie-Anne Kronqvist, who is married to the chairman. This was made as a bit of a joke, at least that is what Marie-Anne told me. When it's windy the heads of the board members go back and forth, like they are all agreeing with the chairman! I will show you a few more sculptures from this years promenade in the coming weeks.

The Supper

During the summer I have visited the annual Art Promenade in Österhaninge a couple of times. They have a different theme every year. This time it was Paradise. I found the art installations around the gallery garden to be very uninteresting this time, but here is a piece I hadnt noticed before, probably because it wasn't there at all. Just across the road from the Medieval church up on a grassy hill I found this. It is called Måltiden, in English The Supper. To see the ten or so photos I have uploaded from this years show check out the slide-show. I might add one or two photos and when I do they will appear in that same slide-show.

The Four-Dimensional Paradise

It is paradisical to look through a complicated maze of spaces and at the same time see that there is something more behind it.


Anders Reuterswärd.

From the 2010 Art Promenade in Österhaninge that opened this past weekend at the Galleri Kyrkskolan. The theme this year is Paradise. I took a photo stroll in the summer weather as I do every year and then had coffee and cake in the garden with a few of the artists. If this style of art looks familiar, it's because I took a portrait of Anders posing with one of his paintings last summer. More art from the art promenade to follow during the summer.

Money

Money is nothing. Money is everything. Money isn't everything. Everything isn't money. Money can preserve nature and landscapes.Money can destroy nature and landscapes. I choose to refuse. Be grateful for the nature that still exists.

(translation and interpretation from the original text by the artist made by me)

Karen Nordsø Lundberg


From the 2009 Art Promenade at the gallery in Österhaninge. This is my last photo from this years art promenade. I went back to the gallery over the weekend. I have previously met and photographed Karen, and when I talked to her on Sunday she wanted me to take a photo of one of her paintings in the show room, and mail that photo to her along with a version of the photo you see here which I have now done.

Up in Smoke

But not the Cheech and Chong version.

Quit smoking before you will go up in smoke. That's the name of this piece. Made by the artist Bengt Hurtig. From the 2009 Art Promenade in Österhaninge. The theme this year is Money. I was a smoker myself for many years. Started smoking when I was eleven years old. Decided to give it up when I was thirty and haven't touched a cigarette since. I wonder how much money I have lost to smoking and how much I have saved since quitting.

H1N1

The biggest scare with the outbreak of the swine flu isn't that it could be as severe as the 1918 flu pandemic. No, the worst thing is that a lot of people wont be able to produce and consume for a long time! That's the interpretation by Klaus Appelt for the 2009 Art Promenade in Österhaninge, where the theme this summer is Money. This is the heaviest sculpture I have seen here. The pig and keyboard weighs in at more than 100 kilos. To show you a little more of the setting for the art promenade, here is another photo of the same sculpture taken from the nearby cemetery at the Medieval church.

A Finansvalp

Time for another look at this years art promenade at the gallery in Österhaninge. This artwork may need some explanation. At least if you are not familiar with the word "finansvalp". Because this is supposedly one of those. The expression was made famous 20 years ago by the then union leader Stig Malm, and refers to the young traders on the stock market back then. You know the type, a yuppie who only cares about making more money. And now with the financial crisis upon us, the yuppies of today are running around looking for help to survive. They used to be fat cats ( the word valp means puppy, but you get the picture), but are now thin and ragged looking. When the times get better again the finansvalp will disappear only to become fat again at other peoples expences or something like that. This sculpture that you can see at the side of the road, next to the Medieval church, was made by the artist Annie Forsberg.