"Urban Festival Creation" Malmberget, Sweden, 2012
In Collaboration with LKAB end Gallivare Comune.
Projekt lider, Artist: Elton Kore
Artists: Mariagrazia Blandino, Maria Winbjork, Tord Petersson
Photo: Michael Johanson
Photo: Michael Johanson
The idea of this Festival was born as a continuation of the project “Underwater 2011”, performed in Malmberget, in 2011, in the months of July, August and September, with the aim to involve, this time, also the local community in a sort of Cultural Clinic, where ideas, and the artistical practice, blend together, to create an experience, aesthetically engaging, track of which remains in the town. The project was implemented by dividing people involved, into three working groups , each group led by an artist.
The first project of the Festival aims at young, with the intention to approach children to the world of artistical creativity. In collaboration with the visual artist Maria Grazia Blandino, from Genoa, Italy, we made up a project inspired by her works which refer to a fantasy world, with figures taken from a bestiary of fantasies hybrid. The group of work, made of children from 8 up to 13 years old, partecipated with enthusiasm at the realization of the work, which was realized on asphalt, in an area of the town used as car park and connection between sports centers.
The second project involved Malmberget students. Together with the artist Elton Kore, coordinator of the project, has been chosen a place that could easily meet the gaze of the young. This is one side of the Ice Palace, whose front overlooks the library of public schools. The image of the balloons flying up, wants to express the idea of the future.
During the work, students were confronted with the artist, speaking together about the theme and the subsequent realization. As the young move their first steps toward a future, which is not yet clear and defined, the balloons symbolize this tension toward freedom and the future.
It must be underlined that in Malmberget exists a particular situation due to the urban context, and of work, since it is known that this town will have to move elsewhere, in the time because of the quarrying mining, affecting its subsoil.
This inevitable reality of the next migration is viewed ambivalently in the community.
The idea of an artistic intervention would in part be a good omen for a chance to change for the better, which is why even the consideration of this changing reality is linked to the image of the ballons.
In just few more then one week at work, ten guys, together with the artist Elton Kore, realized a strong image of positivity and hope.
The third and last project involved three different artists: Elton Kore, Maria Winbjork, Tord Petterson. The intervention was realized on three buildings of Gunillaskolan, which facades were painted with images referred to nature. The concept, in this case, was to create a global vision that suggests the idea of armony, and integration between urban landscape and natural landscape. Nature, as the highest expression of aesthetic perfection, is taken as an example by the artists, who interpreted it, and return it to citizens, in the form of artistic intervention, that aim to enhance Malmberget and its aesthetics.
The first project of the Festival aims at young, with the intention to approach children to the world of artistical creativity. In collaboration with the visual artist Maria Grazia Blandino, from Genoa, Italy, we made up a project inspired by her works which refer to a fantasy world, with figures taken from a bestiary of fantasies hybrid. The group of work, made of children from 8 up to 13 years old, partecipated with enthusiasm at the realization of the work, which was realized on asphalt, in an area of the town used as car park and connection between sports centers.
The second project involved Malmberget students. Together with the artist Elton Kore, coordinator of the project, has been chosen a place that could easily meet the gaze of the young. This is one side of the Ice Palace, whose front overlooks the library of public schools. The image of the balloons flying up, wants to express the idea of the future.
During the work, students were confronted with the artist, speaking together about the theme and the subsequent realization. As the young move their first steps toward a future, which is not yet clear and defined, the balloons symbolize this tension toward freedom and the future.
It must be underlined that in Malmberget exists a particular situation due to the urban context, and of work, since it is known that this town will have to move elsewhere, in the time because of the quarrying mining, affecting its subsoil.
This inevitable reality of the next migration is viewed ambivalently in the community.
The idea of an artistic intervention would in part be a good omen for a chance to change for the better, which is why even the consideration of this changing reality is linked to the image of the ballons.
In just few more then one week at work, ten guys, together with the artist Elton Kore, realized a strong image of positivity and hope.
The third and last project involved three different artists: Elton Kore, Maria Winbjork, Tord Petterson. The intervention was realized on three buildings of Gunillaskolan, which facades were painted with images referred to nature. The concept, in this case, was to create a global vision that suggests the idea of armony, and integration between urban landscape and natural landscape. Nature, as the highest expression of aesthetic perfection, is taken as an example by the artists, who interpreted it, and return it to citizens, in the form of artistic intervention, that aim to enhance Malmberget and its aesthetics.