A chimney sweep on a bicycle, a pine-wood goat, and an evening at Fiskartorget in 1953—these are some of the encounters awaiting you in Art from the county of Kalmar, an exhibition where we at Thelin & Johansson have brought together nearly 80 objects with ties to the entire county.
Follow the coastline—from Lennart Glemme’s depiction of the Tjust archipelago, via Sten Lindahl’s evening scene at Skeppsbron and Fiskartorget in Oskarshamn, to Bessie Johanson’s portrayal of the newly planted Larmtorg in Kalmar. Across the sound, the landscape near Egby unfolds in a painting by Gillis Magnusson. And if you prefer a path through the woods, you can follow the winter light captured by Tord Hjukström.
Raymond Wallentin takes us from his studio window in Kalmar all the way out into the universe, with a few cubist still lifes along the way. Ewa Brodd’s large, vibrant collages—Blue Vase and Rose and Lupin—command attention, while Anita Hedin recreates the shore stones of Svinö using textiles, and Peter Nilsson captures the flight of swifts in pencil.
Browse the catalog and find your favorite. Perhaps you will recognize a familiar place. Or maybe it is Ebbe Eberhardson’s chimney sweep that makes you pause—after all, he already has his bicycle at the ready.
