Now it’s time to celebrate with an anniversary exhibition!

For 10 years, Udden Skulptur has been organised, with sculptures from near and far. In a place between heaven and sea, which is certainly one of the world’s most breathtaking and spectacular exhibition sites for stone sculpture!

Here in northern Bohuslän, stone mining started almost two hundred years ago, where the conditions were absolutely optimal! Here was a rock mass of the most beautiful granite, from beautiful shades of grey to warm red tones. Above ground served for that time’s possibility of quarrying, as it had pronounced cleavage and swell. A coastline with vertical mountainsides, perfect harbour conditions where larger ships could go and load stone for shipping to European cities and continents on the other side of the world. Long before both railways and lorries offered inland quarrying, what skilled quarrymen produced could be exported by boat, and it was precisely in quarries like Udden and Hunnebostrand that the stone industry developed in the late 19th century. Here was what was needed, mountain and sea!

Specialisation became part of industrialisation, depending on the nature and colour of the granite, the availability of skilled craftsmen and skilled companies with skilled labour. They came from stone regions such as Blekinge, Värmland and later Portugal. On Bohus Malmön they produced building stone, walls and paving stones, exploiting the cleavage potential of grey granite. In Hunnebostrand, with a redder granite, elaborate details were made that can be found today in the Post Office and the University in Gothenburg, the Parliament building in Stockholm, but also elaborate bridges like the one in Svinesund and the beautiful bridge in Hovenäset. Craftsmanship grew and the stonemasonry tradition became widely known.

After the Second World War, orders declined and in the 1970s the Udden quarry was closed. Plans for an extensive housing estate were halted by public opinion in 2010, and the idea of a sculpture park was directed, starting in 2011. The basis was the Bohuslän Stone Scholarship, established in 1990, which invited one foreign sculptor each year to work with granite and make their own work. This enabled an international activity to be established with the 30 fellows and members of the Bohuslän Artists’ Collective.

This year is the anniversary, the Udden Skulptur is shown for the tenth time! Many works have been very large, like Thomas Kadziola’s 12 m high granite pillar which was originally quarried in Hallinden, shipped to Lolland for processing, back to Udden to participate for two years! Now it is back on Lolland where it is part of the “Dodekalitten” formation. Other works have been smaller and in materials other than stone, climbing up the steep mountainside or wandering into the water. There are really only two directions here, vertically like the mountain or horizontally like the sea!

In addition to works left over from previous years, this year 9 artists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland are on show. One of the participants, Claus Örntoft, participated in 2011, and is now returning with three works in Granit!

Pål Svensson

Hunnebostrand 1 June 2020

Participants Uddenskulptur 2020

Gunilla Hansson (S)

Hannah Streefkerk (S)

Isabella Martin (GB)(DK)

Kimmo Schroderus (F)

Kjersti Wexelsen Goksöyr (N)

Lolo Funck (S)

Siv Boström/Anna Svensson (S)

Anders Thorlin (S)

Claus Örntoft (DK)

Organisation: artists’ collective Bohuslän

Project management: Kristin Jonsson

Artistic Council: Pål Svensson, Åsa Herrgård, Ingrid Elam, Sanne Kofod Olsen, Peder Istad

Site manager: Hans Leutscher

Photography: Hans Leutscher

Website: Jonas Yzermans Falkheden & Hans Leutscher

Contact

Project manager Kristin Jonsson

Artists’ Collective Workshop Bohuslän

https://kkv-b.se/

Address:

Skärholmen

457 48 Hamburgsund

Phone:

+46 (0)523 - 518 95

E-mail:

info@kkv-b.se