Shown here is a selection of paintings and video-films created during the past year. Some of them are an interpretation of the exhibitions that have been shown; some express the joy of painting.
The youngest exhibitors are three years old, but there are also compositions by adults, who have worked with computerized motifs relating to Swedish kings and queens
An undertaking by the Moderna Museet, in collaboration with Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and ‘Learn for your Life’/The Swedish Reading Campaign, was a mobile exhibition known as The Art Mobile. It consisted of a trailer equipped with a ‘living project’ by the American artist, Andrea Zittel. When the Art Mobile made a temporary stopover at the Stockholm Art Fair in Sollentuna, the children came to look at it and constructed their own small rooms for dancing mice.
Öyvind Fahlströms “Manipulera världen” (Manipulating the World), is a painting with detachable elements, and functions on the lines of a game. During the Easter holiday the children painted, cut and pasted their own games. Beata has painted a red shape with a girl who came to visit; Ella designed a display window and a fashion show. A lot can happen in that window!
Volcanoes are a spontaneous and recurrent motif, painted mostly by boys.
The cinema shows films made by the children, who were responsible for writing the script, filming and editing. Their ideas revolve around blood, murder, and Osama Bin Ladin, and reflect their response to the violence shown by the media. The films were produced in collaboration with Film Stockholm, The Tensta Konsthall (Public Art Gallery), The Lemshaga Academy, Sundby School, Hjulsta School, and Tyresö Media Gymnasium (Sixth Form College for Media Studies).
Maria Taube, Curator Education and Programme
