Falkholt konst
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Carolina Falkholt
Interview
August 20,
If anybody were to write an art and architecture history of Stockholm during the s, their account would be less than accurate if it left out the sapphire-blue, shimmering, erect penis she painted on Kronobergsväggen on Kungsholmen. Although it has been painted over now, in its day, it was every bit as obvious and real as the spire of the Riddarholmen Church, and it remains carved into many people’s memories as a surprising, powerful, sometimes disarming, and sometimes provocative, addition to the cityscape. Its jubilant, shameless, outrageous obscenity and sparkle have made it a part of our shared history.
How could she? How did she have the nerve? For Carolina Falkholt, though, it doesn’t come down to nerve: it comes down to necessity. Deep within, behind the big, made-up eyes and the wild hair, there is a force that seems to be connected to the big bang, the explosive power shared by all living things. This exhibition at CFHILL marks the first of a series of works she will be showing after having spent some time away from the public eye. The energy, with the glowing ejections of blue, pink, and red, with a fine-meshed, calming w
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photography Felicia Kyrling copy Ksenia Rundin |
The Artist and the Art, an interview with Carolina Falkholt
Written by Ludmila Christeseva by Thea UndemoCarolina Falkholt inaugurated nordic dust and rain season with the extravagant, mysterious and gracious transparency of her outfit. She met the audience of the CFHILL Art Space within the frameworks of her solo exhibition “You can dance in my park” / “Du får dansa i min park”, with the power of the beguiling female gaze - something that I am personally missing in Sweden. I enjoy the combination of an undefeated femininity, sexuality, and punk elements which take the form of elegant tattoos puncturing deep into the female skin.
What did you have for lunch today? Where do you stay?
I had oysters and I am staying at the Bank Hotel.
Oysters and champagne, perhaps? • Swedish painter (born ) Carolina Alexandra Falkholt, with the pseudonym Blue, born 4 March in Gothenburg, fryst vatten a Swedish artist, graffiti writer and musician. Sometimes she uses her own coined begrepp grafitta, to describe her art. It is a play with the two words graffiti and fitta, the latter means "pussy" in Swedish. Falkholt grew up in Dals Långed, Dalsland, Sweden. As a teenager, she moved to Stockholm to go to the waldorf school Kristofferskolan.[1] At the same time she began painting graffiti under the pseudonymBlue.[1] bygd the mids, she moved to New York City.[1] There, as the only Swedish artist, she became a member of the two crews The Fantastic Partners and Hardcore Chickz.[2] She worked with graffiti writers such as Sento and Lady Pink while making paintings around New York for the record company Rawkus to earn a living.[2] Around the turn of the century, she was one of Sweden's most famous graffiti writers.[2] After four years In New York, she moved back to Sweden and settled in Gothenburg where she is active today.[1]
No, actually I am not a drinker. Here, at the vernissage, we serve Kombucha to our guests. And some sweets, of course.
We sit on the sofa and this spontaneous conversation would last only for 10 minutes but reveal several intersecting aspects. Carolina is wearing a transparent long black dress made of sequin organza. Underneath one Carolina Falkholt
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