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Åke Göransson
- Master of "Färgformen"
As I entered the room I was possessed with devotion, and
I automatically lowered my voice. That is how Håkan Wettre,
curator at Gothenburg Museum of Art, describes his encounter
with Swedish artist Åke Göransson's works of art,
which had just been hanged for the exhibition at the museum
in the fall of 2002. Indoor pictures and views in delicate shades
of green and grayish blue, flower pieces in shimmering poetic
colors, and paintings in blazing red and purple filled the walls.
March 2003
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Edvard Munch - A creative
mind
”Illness, insanity and death were the black angels
who watched over my cradle and who followed me throughout my
life.” This statement was made by the Norwegian artist
Edvard Munch, whose paintings and graphic art are showed at
Göteborg Museum of Art in Gothenburg, Sweden until January
6 2003. Lena U Carlsson has been to the exhibition.
November 2002
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"Bergtagen"
In the spring of 2002, Lena U Carlsson visited the exhibition
"Bergtagen" at Röda Sten in Gothenburg, Sweden.
This contained paintings by the artist Tomas Niklasson, in which
he interpreted stories he had been told by people who have experienced
psychosis.
October 2002
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Relatives
To be a relative or close friend to someone who suffers from
a mental illness can feel hard and hopeless, and as a relative
you often need as much help and support as the actual patient.
Lena U Carlsson has this time in her column written about the
relatives and their situtation in health care and society today.
February 2002
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Sigrid Hjertén
The Swedish artist Sigrid Hjertén, who was active during
the first half of the twentieth century, continues to fascinate.
Hjertén worked as an artist for three decades but she
stopped painting since she had fallen ill with schizophrenia
in her fifties.
June 2001
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Schizophrenia and the expressions
of art of today
On account of an upcoming
exhibition about schizophrenia and art at the History of Medicine
in the Swedish town of Lund, Lena U Carlsson has written a
column reflecting a number of patients and their creative
work, before the introduction of modern psychopharmacological
drugs.
May 2001
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Ester Henning: a special artist
The Swedish artist Ester Henning who suffered from schizophrenia
was treated in mental hospitals during 66 years. During that
time she produced a large number of works of art. Some of
these are shown at Bror Hjorth's Hus in Uppsala in mars-april
in 2001.
March 2001
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Solitary Beings
Lena reports from an art exhibition that
took place at Waldemarsudde in Stockholm during the spring of
2000. Many of the artists behind the paintings suffered from
schizophrenia.
November 2000
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Schizophrenia and creativity
The column discusses evolutionary aspects of schizophrenia.
The main subject is however the question "are schizophrenic
persons more creative than others?". Many well known
scientists and artists have suffered from mental diseases.
The column also presents an overview of the life and art of
Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.
September 2000
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The author
Lena U Carlsson is a science journalist, who has been writing
about natural sciences and medicine for more than 20 years as
a freelancer. Several of her articles are on psychiatric issues.
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