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<\/p>\nI went to see Liljevalchs’s spring art salon together with Adrian and Ingrid.<\/p>\n
I’ve always moved through the rooms in a counter-clockwise direction, because that’s the direction that’s straight forward from the entrance. That’s put the room with the under-eighteens’ works as the first one. Ingrid and Adrian confidently steered us in the opposite direction, because that was obviously the right way to go in their mind. It does actually make more sense this way, because now we started in a spacious hall of eye-catching sculptures and large paintings.<\/p>\n
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The works at the salon are all for sale, at a price set by the artist. Some, I think, price them so as to be almost sure that they won’t sell. Others are very affordable. Some look expensive to me but then turn out to have been sold nevertheless. (There’s a board in one of the rooms with sticker dots marking what’s been sold and what hasn’t.)<\/p>\n
One of glass sculptures above, which I rather liked, had been sold for a sweet 95,000 SEK.<\/p>\n
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This one-metre sculpture of a submarine was made of metal and wood, and had been aged underwater for three years, according to the label. (Nils Lagergren, “Belgravia”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n I wonder how this work of neon tubes and black paint on the wall was even presented to the jury, and how it can have been transported here. (Josefin Eklund, “Mysterious goats and geometric heads”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n There were of course not just weird sculptures but also paintings of all kinds. I liked this pair of very realistic but dreamy views of a spring forest. (Mats N\u00f6rle, “Ekbacken om v\u00e5ren”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Ingrid taught me about underpainting, and how it is often done in red or orange. (Anna-Christina Eriksson, “Picnic With a Red Cadillac”.<\/a>)<\/p>\n I’m always curious about textile works – there’s almost always some embroidery and textile sculpture, sometimes weaving or crochet or knitting. The embroidery works usually tend to be concrete depictions of people or stories, which, yeah, I know other people like, but it’s not my thing. This year I liked this Sami-inspired piece of embroidery on tulle. (Yvonne Larsson, “Blodsband”<\/a>.) There were, in general, quite a lot of Sami-themed works.<\/p>\n This piece was pleasing in its geometric simplicity. It looked like embroidery at first, but was acrylic paint on fabric. (Juanma Gonzalez, “D\u00f6d ved ger nytt liv _ ad#07”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n![](\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4052_spring_salon_3.jpg\")
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