Jonas Böttern

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©, 2010, Jonas Böttern
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THOUGHTS / INSPIRATION / NEWS

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2011 - Karnataka, India -

Finding a working place on top of a hill, overlooking palm trees and the ocean. No distractions. Giving birth to Hillside Projects and Hillside Press, collaborating with Emily Mennerdahl. There, in the mist of incense and garbage I produce Accounts, a book of concepts and methods.

Into a sea of confusion

Overcast with heavy skies

Let you thoughts flow past you, calmly

Crowned wit eternal flame no flood can lay

Searching the sky in confusion

I find and know nothing

but dreaming comes easy to me

Like a tickling, wondering sparrow

2010 - Child Hood Heroes -

Kandinsky´s visionary manifesto!

Concerning the spiritual in art.

Hill skapar sången som Whansinnet gaf.

Vill drapar gången som han´ minnet haf.

Gill gapar mången, dom van minnet glaf.

Drill gapat bången, kom gran tinnet laf.

/Hill (from the book Nagug.)

Carl Fredirk Hill, Swedish painter, 1849-1911 and Erik Hermelin, Swedish author and translator, 1860-1944. They both spent longer periods of time at St:Lars Mental hospital in Lund (opposite the house in which I grew up) where they created significant bodies of work.

LINKS

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Andreas Åkesson
Styrelsen
Pauline Fraisse
Emily Mennerdahl
Simon Klose
John Robert Lee
Andreas Pastor
Daniel Pedersen
Elias Lindén
Liu Lifen
Galleri B:Fors
TCG Nordica

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MISCELLANEOUS

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Various paintings and portrait commissions.

2008 - now

Nectar Of Immortality (Kumbh Mela), 100 x 100 cm, oil on canvas. 2010

Searching The Sky In Confusion (Kumbh Mela), 115 x 85 cm, oil on canvas. 2010

The World Within (Kumbh Mela), 70 x 60 cm, oil on canvas. 2010

Untitled, 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas. 2009

Family Of Foxes, 120 x 80 cm, oil on canvas. 2008

Untitled, 60 x 50 cm, oil on canvas. 2009

HUMAN ANIMAL (part I)

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Are people animals? Questions about behaviours, cultivation and whole civilisation initiated the search to find the division between humans and animals. I create compositions using narrative symbolic methods. Considering religious and cultural perspectives I reflect upon how the animal role is portrayed throughout the history of art. Carefully fumbling down paths amongst good and evil, animal and human life appear to be the same. As darkness falls I find myself inside a lion’s den wrapped in the strong smell of fur.

God Left Long Ago, 95 x 68 cm, oil on canvas.

Girl and Faun, 150 x 130 cm, oil on canvas.

Confession, Mischievous Mind, Change, each individual painting 100 x 50 cm, oil on canvas.

Swan and Boy, 100 x 75 cm, oil on canvas.

Self Reflection, 120 x 68 cm, oil on canvas.

Beyond Recognition 1 and II, each individual painting 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas.

Among The Trees I and II, each individual painting 100 x 65 cm, oil on canvas.

Involuntary Sinner, 100 x 70 cm, oil on canvas.

On A Bed Of Silk And Velvet, 30 x 20 cm, oil on canvas.

Messenger, 65 x 60 cm, oil on canvas.

LIFE ILLUSIVE

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Hoppets Morgonrodnad

Hoppets morgonrodnad, som var gömd bakom det Osynligas slöja,

Kan nu visa sig, sedan den svarta nattens verk fullbordats.

Hädanefter skall mitt Hjärta utstråla ljus över horisonterna:

Jag har vunnit över till solen; och dammet har försvunnit.

/Khwãdja Hãfiz

Stairs I and Stairs II, 60 x 50 cm, oil on canvas.

Living Room, 120 x 90 cm, oil on canvas.

Drapes, 100 x 85 cm, oil on canvas.

Kitchen, 60 x 50 cm, oil on canvas.

CONTACT

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E-mail: flaxora at yahoo dot com

Mobile: +46 (0) 733 89 36 86

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EDUCATION

University: Cultural History 20p, University of Lund, Sweden 1997

College: Art and Design 1994-1996

EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2010 Ljungrens, Stockholm (solo exhibition)

2010 Gallery B:Fors, Stockholm (solo exhibition)

2006 Konst på Backarna, St:Olof (group exhibition)

2006 SCA Sijön, Göteborg (solo exhibition)

2005 Café Simrishamnsgatan, Malmö (solo exhibition)

2005 Bar Express, Lund (solo exhibition)

2005 Kronovall Castle, St:Olof solo exhibition)

2004 Höörs Commune Art Organisation, Höör (solo exhibition)

2004 Gallery Pictura, Lund (Group exhibition)

2004 Gallery Clodion, Oslo (solo exhibition)

2003 Gallery Pingvin, Oslo (solo exhibition)

2002 Growin´art, Malmö (group exhibition)

2001 Alfa Laval, Lund (solo exhibition)

2000 Sagan i Tavlan, Kävlinge Theater (Music Theater)

2000 Gallery 10, Lund (solo exhibition)

GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS

2010 Mural and logotype, restaurant Greenhouse, Malmö

2010 18 illustrations, Sagotajm, Swedish Radios Webpage, Stockholm

2010 Album cover, Styrelsen och Chords

2009 Album cover, Robert Athill

2008 Grant, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse

2007 Mural, Studio Laungen, Stockholm

2005 Mural, Sodhexo, Malmö, Halmstad, Växjö och Kalmar

Private Collections in Sweden.

Portraits made on order.

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BIO

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Jonas Böttern is a visual artist and painter based in Sweden. Working mainly with oil painting he also continues to experiment with various classical techniques such as The Mische (mixed oil and egg tempera). Jonas work has been included in several exhibitions, he is the recipient of grants and he has worked and taken part in residencies in China and India.

Other projects include illustration, murals, collage, animation and theatre productions. His work has appeared on Sveriges Radio Hemsida (Swedish Radio web-site), Greenhouse, Styrelsen and Chords, Kävlinge Theatre, Sodhexo etc

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Photo: Emily Mennerdahl

HUMAN ANIMAL (part II)

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Paintings made for the Human Animal series during a residency at TCG Nordica in Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Into the Clouds, 150 x 120 cm, oil on canvas.

It´s Getting Late, 200 x 150 cm, oil on canvas.

   Crucifixion, 150 x 120 cm, oil on canvas.


   Xi Ba Lu Scheme I and II, each individual painting 150 x 120 cm, oil on canvas.

   Xi Ba Lu Puzzle, series of 8 paintings, 30 x 25 cm and 30 x 10 cm, oil on canvas.

ACCOUNTS

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Under Construction..............

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