Exhibition Opening Today, Films on Sunday

Today it’s Friday Oct 30th and the opening of the exhibition! From 18.00–21.00 hrs at Malmö’s cinema/gallery for art films; Spegeln. The 21 pieces from the 7 artists will be there to behold, in all their Frankensteinian glory. Violinist Camila Astorga Díaz will be playing live at 19.00 and 20.00 hrs; guaranteed to send chills down everybody’s spines.

On Sunday Nov 1st at 17.30 hrs there is our big Frankenstein film program! We’re bringing you 8 films – 7 short films and a full feature film – that will give you the big picture of how Mary Shelley’s novel has been interpreted on the silver screen. The seats are limited, so book yours by sending an e-mail to frankenstein@isv.se

Hope to see all of you there!

Exhibition: Fri Oct 30th – Fri Nov 13th
Film program: Sun Nov 1st, 17.30 hrs (15 år, 90 kr)

C’est Bon Panorama II: Frankenstein, exhibition and film program, is part of the festival “I Seriernas Värld” (In the World of Comics). The illustration above was created for the official catalog by our friend and colleague Johanna Kristiansson.

Panorama in the Press

In today’s issue of the newspaper Sydsvenskan, we’re featured on the front page of the culture section. Malmö is leading the comics culture.

Read the full article in Swedish here.

Allan: Procrastinating & shooting down concepts

You know, we should probably call it quits. The whole thing was done 70 years ago, down to the color scheme (almost) for the Swedish poster for “Son of Frankenstein”…

We will be the new mainstream, indeed

The poster was found on http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/, along with loads of other Frankenstein and Karloff goodies.

The Poster

Here is the finished poster for the exhibition.

Format: 50×70 cm
Price: 30 kr

Jamil: Ideas for the Poster

I had the idea early on to create a poster that visually represents seven different interpretations of the subject Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s novel is one of the world’s most, if not THE most, interpreted and re-interpreted stories.

In the  first Panorama exhibition we chose to work with the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood. These works are both stories that just about everybody is familiar with in some way. But do we know these stories from their original form or from one of the many interpretations out there? We in CBK are fascinated by the interpretation itself, the very process, and that fascination is one of the core ideas of these exhibitions.

This is what the first small sketch for the Frankenstein poster looked like:

At first, we were supposed to be six artists working on the project. Three of the current CBK crew, and three that have been working with us in the past. Each artist would get one body part: right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg, torso and head.

But then we were happy to have Sofia Falkenhem join the CBK crew and we wanted her in on this project as well. We were now seven.

Since cutting the human body into seven parts wasn’t as convenient, I came up with the idea of just using the head. And this particular head is easy to recognize! So this is what the next sketch looked like:

I used an image of Boris Karlof’s Frankenstein – a film which we’ll be screening together with several shorts on nov 1st – and cut it into seven pieces. I numbered the pieces and had someone draw a number to assign the pieces to each and everyone of us. I scanned the pieces on a grid so it would be easy to see how they were shaped.

Then we all drew/painted/designed our separate pieces. What they look like pieced back together, is what you see below. Voilà.

Illustration for the Poster

The work to the exhibition is starting to take shape, piece by piece. All the artists are sketching away, working on ideas on how to approach Shelley’s novel.

We have created an illustration as a collaboration for the poster. We cut a classic image of Frankenstein’s monster (from a film that we’ll be showing) into seven pieces, and then each of us drew one piece.

Together with the exhibition, there’ll be a film program with several shorts and one full feature. More about this as we go along, and we’ll be posting the finished poster soon.

The original image can be found here.

C’est Bon Panorama II

There will be a sequel to C’est Bon Panorama. It will take place in October/November and the theme will be Frankenstein.

Participating artists will be Jamil Mani, Johan Jergner-Ekervik, Sofia Falkenhem and Allan Haverholm from the current C’est Bon Kultur crew, and Oskar Aspman, Susanne Johansson and Mattias Elftorp who make a reunion appearance.

It’s going to be great! More on this later…

Panorama: the result

Finally, we present the entire collection of images, in the order that they appeared in the exhibition:

Mattias Elftorp: Werewolf/Varulv (600kr)

Mattias Elftorp: Chat (600kr)

Mattias Elftorp [no title] (600kr)

Mattias Elftorp: No need for hunters (600kr)

Mattias Elftorp: When there’s no more room in the woods… (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Cottage/Stuga (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Girl/Flicka (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Wolves/Vargar (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Interior/Interiör (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Grandmother/Mormor (600kr)

Susanne Johansson: Dream/Dröm (600kr)

Jamil Mani: Wolf cry/Vargtjut (1 800kr)

Jamil Mani: Revulsion/Uppkastning (1 800kr)

Jamil Mani: Bang! (you’re dead)/Pang! (du är död) (1 800kr)

Mattias Elftorp: Why so big mouth?/Varför så stor mun? (600kr)

Jamil Mani: Come out n’ play/Kom ut å lek (1 800kr)

Jamil Mani: In flames/I lågor (1 800kr)

Jamil Mani: A faint breeze/En svag bris (1 800kr)

 

Prices include framing. Order by sending an email to shop@cestbonkultur.com

Some photos…

From the opening afternoon, November 29.

Last week…

The last week of the Panorama exhibition is upon us.

These are the opening hours:
Tue-Thur:
18-1830 & 20-2030
Fri:
18-1830 & 1930-20
Sat:
14-16