Exhibition : Arrigas.

I will exhibit four photographs at the Community Hall in Arrigas (France) between July 23 and August 7, 2022, together with five others artists.

The exhibition "Regards d'artistes" will show paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos and collages, and is organized by the Cultural Committee of the Arrigas Municipality.

The photographs are part of the project I started for a few years ago about Arrigas, a village in the Gard department in southern France and located in the Cévennes mountains range.

You can read and see more about the project here.

The opening is on Saturday 23, at 5 pm

Welcome to Arrigas !

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Ytterjärna : the Garden Park.

The artist Arne Klingborg (1915-2005) called the park in Ytterjärna « a garden park in Sörmland ». A garden meets a park that meets a landscape right here, just outside Järna (28 milles south of Stockholm) in the Sörmanland region.

The garden park was developed from the typical Sörmland cultivated landscape and under Arne Klingborg's leadership acquired a kind of anthroposophical design language that became unique among gardens and parks in Sweden. A creative and social garden movement gained momentum, and has been a source of inspiration for the ecological movement we have today.

The garden park consists of about fifty different formations and motifs. The large rose garden and the biological purification ponds are the most prominent motifs, but there are also more subtle motifs such as "The Clearing", "The Nightingale's Garden" and "the Liljefors Birch Grove". There are also a number of perennial flower beds with different colour themes; the Yellow, Blue and Red flower beds and the White Garden. Below the White House is a terraced flower-bed called the Monet flower bed, a plantation in blue with hints of orange and pink like a painting of a sunset by the Impressionist artist.

We are today four gardeners taking care of Trädgårdsparken, as the garden park is called in Swedish, and our tasks are: care and maintenance of land surfaces, grass and hedge cutting, weeding, pruning of trees and shrubs, spring and autumn cleaning, maintenance of perennials and the two rose-gardens, planting and care of annuals, watering flower beds, and maintenance of the ponds and water stairs.

You can follow the daily life in the park on our Instagram account!

I also regularly take photographs in the park, and they are part of a long-term project. You can see a few of them below and follow the link for some more pictures.

And in addition to the park, there is plenty for both the soul and the senses with a large selection of cultural events at the "Kulturhuset" cultural centre.

Ytterjärna Hotell and the restaurant and café KulturMat complement the activities of Kulturhuset.

You can follow them on Instagram!

Kulturhuset i Ytterjärna

Ytterjärna Hotell

KulturMat, restaurant and café

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Swedish Country Churches 1.

The project Swedish Country Churches (Landsbygdskyrkor / Eglises de campagne suédoises) focuses on the smallest and most unknown of all the churches of Sweden, and specifically those in two regions, Västergötland and Värmland, with the aim of spotlighting their beauty and originality. One fascinating thing they have in common is that they have hand-painted interiors, dating from different periods of history.

The project is directed by Philippe Bouquet, former professor of Scandinavian languages at the University of Caen (France) and a very talented translator from Swedish literature into French with over 150 published books.

The project concluded with the production of a book which gonna present 30 churches. The foreword and the texts for each church are written by Philippe Bouquet (Swedish, French and English), and all the photographs are taken by Laurent Denimal.

We 've got the support of the Church of Sweden (Svenska Kyrkan), with a recommandation letter from the Research and Analysis Unit (Uppsala), and financial support from the Swedish Royal Patriotic Society (Kungliga Patriotiska Sällskapet).

A simplified map show the churches localisation in Västergötland and Värmland, and a few photographs of the project are presented. You can see even more pictures here.

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Swedish country churches

Västergötland and Värmland

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Hammarö Suntak Vesene

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Details from the churches of Hammarö, Husaby, Älgarås, Suntak, Forsby, Borgvik, Kungslena, Habo and Fullösa. (left to right, top to bottom)

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