Invigningstalade igår på öppningen av Maria Miesenbergs sommarutställning på Konst i Gryt, som drivs av energiska och duktiga Barbara Martin och hennes man Sture Korpi, i vår sommarort Stjärnhov. De flyttade in i Gryts gamla prästgård för 7 år sedan, efter pensionering från karriärer i statens tjänst, och startade sitt drömprojekt. Ett konstgalleri, med hög kvalitet, till allas vår glädje som bor i trakten. Barbara, som är dotter till stora textilkonstnären Edna Martin, har konsten i släkten, och Edna Martin finns givetvis också representerad. I år firas 5 årsjubileum nu med konstnären Maria Miesenberger, som jag både tycker om som vän och som konstnär. Maria och hennes familj hyr ett torp av vår familj sedan några år tillbaka, så våra trådar har vävts ihop igen i Stjärnhov, något vi inte hade kunnat gissa på vårt första möte i Tokyo – då jag bodde i Tokyo och Maria bodde och levde i New York. Lägger in lite bilder.
If you have a chance to visit Sörmland and Stjärnhov this summer, only about one and a half hour drive south of Stockholm, be sure to visit the gallery Konst i Gryt where you can see a summer exhibition of the well known Swedish contemporary artist Maria Miesenberger Maria is a dear friend and a skilled artist, we met in Tokyo back in 1999, when she had an exhibition in the embassy where we worked an lived. At that time Maria lived in New York, and nowadays she spends her summers renting a small cottage from our family in our summer town Stjärnhov, where we all spend our spare time. Yesterday was the inauguration of the exhibition, where I was invited as a guest speaker. Amazing to see how her sculptures, man size androgynous figures in aliminium, has entered a completely new scene in the romantic landscape of Sörmland, and her acclaimed photo series Sverige/Schweden are to be read in a completely new context.
Maria and her Human Ostrich scupture at Gryts Prästgård
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- Special colors for the day
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- Hide & Seek in camouflage crawling outside the barn
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- Sverige Schweden photo series in small format inside the barn
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- one of the hide & seek sculptures hiding inside the barn
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- The entrance of the barn = main gallery
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- Maria in conversation with another talented artist Gunvor Bergquist
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- Maria Miesenberger with her former painting professor Claes Jurander, and Bisse Abelli and Petra Westermark, also artist of the galleryand also artists of the gallery
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- Johan Killgren, Marias husband, his father and friend & Maria Miesenberger herself
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- Some 100 guests came to the opening of the exhibition
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- Despite rainy morning, the sun came out and lots of people gathered in the garden
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- Hide & Seek inside the barn
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- The entrance of the barn
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- Maria Miesenberger, Claes Jurander, Bisse Abellin, Petra Westermark
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- The Human Ostrich
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- The cottage where Maria and her family spend their summers
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- Collective show of the other 7 artists, in view here are Lenny Klarhäll and Enno Halleck
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- Hide & Seek peeking out the window
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- Another 13-year-old aliminium figure in camouflage pattern from Hide & Seek
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- Youngster # 3 from the Hide & Seek series
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- Maria and her Human Ostrich scupture at Gryts Prästgård
