Welcome to Open Studio, Thursday January 23 in the Annex up at Ricklundgården at 19.00!
Dutch artist Marieke van Rooy, partner of Mangano van Rooy https://www.instagram.com/mangano_vanrooy/, from Amsterdam, wants to share her artistic research on the importance of nature and the individual connection to nature in times when the climate is under pressure.
“This is a newly started research project and Marieke would like to exchange ideas with Kultsjödal residents about our contact with nature, we who live in southern Lapland, after all. The concept of nature on a personal level is closely linked to experiences from childhood, don’t you agree?”
Marieke offers coffee / tea while we talk together about personal, exciting memories and adventures in nature. In the meantime, she will present sources of inspiration for her research, such as a Dutch medieval encyclopedia of nature, full of imaginative creatures – animal and human – and the 1972 report of the Club of Rome.
This international alarm for future climate problems has been translated into more than 30 languages. In Swedish, it was published as Tillväxtens gränser. If you happen to have a copy of this book at home, please bring it along.
Welcome at 7 pm in the Annex on Thursday!
My residency at Ricklundgarden has been generously supported by Amarte Fonds https://www.instagram.com/amartefonds/
Marieke van Rooy’s internship is structurally supported by the Mondriaan Fund https://www.instagram.com/mondriaanfonds/
The artist would like to thank the staff at Ricklundgården and its foundation.
“Emma and Folke Ricklund’s life and work were closely connected to nature, which made them an interesting inspiration for this research”.
Marieke van Rooy
