Vernissage Galleri Lisse Bruun

Here are a few images from the vernissage today – a sunny afternoon with lots of good friends in the Galleri Lisse Bruun. And a lot of great, small pieces of art on the walls and in the exhibition showcase. Nobody bought any of my collages, but I bought a porcelain chair made by Renata Cassiano. The exhibition is on until 4 July 2009. More info here


Lisse Bruun, Svend Bruun, Lisbeth Tolstrup.


Karina Bjerregaard – one of the most faithful exhibition guests, she's just there, at every exhibition opening! On the wall: Iben Grünbaum, Lars Pryds.


Terje Sandengen – painting that breaks the format.


Anne Wollter, Lisbeth Tolstrup.


Angelika Nissen's fabulous sculptures, made from found materials.


Renata Cassiano: "The amazing adventures of the heart, that didn't know what it wanted".

Sommer i Galleri Lisse Bruun fra 28. maj

Galleri Lisse Bruun
Sommerudstilling 2009 – galleriets kunstnere med gæster
Velkommen til fernisering torsdag den 28. maj 2009 kl. 17-19.
Udstillingen slutter 4. juli 2009.

Galleri Lisse Bruun
Summer Exhibition 2009 – the gallery's artists and guests
Welcome to the vernissage Thursday 28 May 2009, 5-7pm.
Exhibitions ends 4 July 2009.

Galleri Lisse Bruun
St. Kongensgade 99, 1264 København K, tlf. 33 14 59 62, www.gallerilissebruun.dk
Wednesday-Friday 12am-6pm, Saturday 11am-2pm.

Tine Bech on the fourth floor

Danish artist Tine Bech is one of eight international artists in the exhibition Safe to Touch which will open on Friday 22 May at the Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The artists are all actively involved in the sphere of what we can loosely label ‘the tactile’ turning the traditional ‘do not touch’ gallery rule upside down – inviting the visitor to touch, participate, explore and reconsider their conditioned behaviour and boundaries.
Tine Bech, whose work "Tumbleweed" is shown on the poster (left) "plays with the ambiguity of uncanny objects, directly involving, even obliging, the visitors to confront their initial feeling of repulsion".
Exhibition ends on 2 August 2009. More info at thehubcentre.info

Type in Oulu

During the days at the SNDS seminar in Oulu, I found time to point the camera at typography in the city. Forget about interactivity here: Lean back and take a pause for a few moments, and get fascinated by the self-running slides which include traffic signs, a shop logo that looks like a cross between a ©-sign and a registered trademark sign, my new Swatch (bought in Helsinki Airport) and others …

I made a similar series of photos in 2007, when the seminar was held in Stockholm. You can see them here: www.prydsblog.com/2007/05/type-in-stockholm-streets.html

My presentation in Oulu

I did it! Made my presentation, even within the scheduled 30 minutes, at the SNDS conference in Oulu this Friday afternoon. Here are a few shots from the presentration, me showing and telling the story of a poster for Galleri Lisse Bruun (exhibition is still on!), a spread in '24timer', and a spread I made recently for the international SND publication 'Design'. Scroll down this blog, and you can see both spreads a little clearrer. There were lots of great presentations in Oulu – the most northern place an SNDS seminar has been held ever. Photos by Lisbeth Tolstrup.

SNDS - Swedish gold in Scandinavian news design

The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter recieved the only gold medal for good news design at the annual Scandinavia news design conference hosted by Society of News Design Scandinavia, which took places in Oulu in the northern part of Finland Friday. Dagens Nyheter earned the gold award for its redesign of the supplement "På Stan", which has been shrinked from tabloid to a format close to A5.
71 Scandinavian media houses were represented in the contest. Other than the gold medal 16 silver diplomas, 17 bronze diplomas and 36 awards of excellence were handed out at the conference.

See all the winning pages at snds.org

Etanapannu – Finnish word of the day

So, I've landed in Oulu, city of Mieskoro Huutajat, the Air Guitar World Championship, and the site for this year's SNDS design conference. The temperature is 5 degrees below Copenhagen, at least in the evening, although the sun does not set until close to 11pm. Strange to walk home to the hotel in broad daylight in the evening. Meetings until 6.30pm, dinner at Sokeri-Jussin ("Sugar-Ray") Kievari Restaurant, having escargots in garlic butter and a beer. I passed on the reindeer – I want presents for Christmas …


Here are my escargots – or "Etanapannu", as I learned today


The local brew has a simple logo my-kinda-style – simple twist of the J


Søren S. Nielsen took my picture behind glasses.

Oulu presentation ready!

Yes! I have finally finished the presentation for Oulu – the annual SNDS conference where I will be speaking about "News design and fine art side by side". See the trailer here – and if you're in Oulu on Friday, join the party at 3pm.
__Finding images for the presentation has been a great trip down memory lane – as I have tried to find examples of my work both from recent years and from back in the 80'ies and 90'ies. I draw two conclusions from the trip; one is that it was good to see the old work again, the other, that paintings and graphic design have always been there, side by side. But I had already guessed that.
__See you in Oulu!