Carl-Erik Ström

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Carl-Erik Ström (born July 25, 1938 in Ekenäs ) is a Finnish author, painter, photographer ( photo artist ) and installation artist .

Life

Born in Ekenäs in southern Finland, he completed his military service there and then trained as a decorator in Helsinki, 80 km away . Until he moved to Stockholm in the early 1980s, he continued to work full-time there in the profession he had learned for the oldest department store in the country. Today Carl-Erik Ström only works as an artist, at his current residence in Stockholm and abroad, u. a. New York and the South of France.

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In the 1960s, Carl-Erik Ström first wrote several books with collections of short stories and worked as a painter with a strong impressionist influence. Inspired by Pop Art and above all by US artists like Alexander Calder , he began with installations in the early 1970s and then increasingly turned to photography.

First exhibitions, u. a. in the gallery "Cheap Thrills" founded by Jan-Olof Mallander in Helsinki, and his membership in the artist group "Skördemannen" (Finnish: Elonkorjaajat ) founded in 1971 made him known nationally. Other founding members of the group were, besides Mallander, artists such as Peter Widén and Pekka Airaksinen.

At the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, Ström published several photo books that made him famous beyond the borders of Finland. The Venice Biennale finally brought him international attention , at which he represented Finland in 1984 with a series of large-format black and white photos from his work "Silence".

In 2000 the art gallery in Ingolstadt made works by Carl-Erik Ström accessible to the German public for the first time with the exhibition “Twilight”. In 2009 the artist group “Skördemannen” experienced its revival with a comprehensive group exhibition by Carl-Erik Ström and other members such as Pekka Airaksinen, Carolus Enckell, Antero Kare, Philip von Knorring , J.-O. Mallander, Ilkka Juhani Takalo-Eskola, Erik Uddström, Peter Widén and Stuart Wrede in the Elverket exhibition hall in Ekenäs in southern Finland.

Most of his photographs deal with nature, his installations and the theme of shamanism . For a long time, these themes formed the main part of his photographic work, all of which were kept in black and white. His most recent publication “Logbook” , published in 2008, breaks with this for the first time and impresses with its play with the possibilities of color photography.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ström, Carl-Erik: Åtta till fem.Holger Schildts förlagsaktiebolag, Helsinki 1974, (collection of short stories by Carl-Erik Ström)
  • B., Mats: Fotografens Makt (The mighty photographer) Kalejdoskop Verlag, Åhus 1979, ISBN 91-85552-08-9 (photographs by Carl-Erik Ström from 1960 to 1970)
  • Mallander, Jan-Olof: Biennale di Venezia: Finlandia Helsinki 1984, ISBN 951-99540-0-7 (exhibition catalog)
  • Ström, Carl-Erik: Silence: fotografier 1980–87 Kalejdoskop Verlag, Åhus 1987, ISBN 91-7936-009-2 (photographs by Carl-Erik Ström from 1980 to 1987)
  • Ström, Carl-Erik: Som en sten bland stenar Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje 1999, ISBN 91-973435-1-X (exhibition catalog)
  • Ström, Carl-Erik: Logbook , GML Förlag 2008, ISBN 978-91-977469-4-6
  • Ström, Carl-Erik a. a. Author: Skördemännen / Elonkorjaajat / The Harvesters - once enfant, always terrible Galleri Elverket 2009, ISBN 978-952-99875-6-6 (exhibition catalog)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review in: Litteratur Magazinet from August 14, 2008. (Accessed February 16, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Ström, Carl-Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ström, Carl Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish writer, installation artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekenäs