It is about time. Ernst Billgren is about time. He simply never stays where you put him. Now it is time for him to go English, or international. Ernst was world famous in Sweden already ages ago for being a sculptor and a painter. His mosaics and figurative paintings introduced something that was already forgotten in contemporary art. He was not difficult. He was even popular. Everybody, not just the high-end critics, loved what he presented and he was very outspoken about he he wanted people to understand arts real potential. It was evident that this was somebody who really new his métier. But even more so that Ernst Billgren got there because he was on a mission to find out what art really could be in our times. He never left the painting but suddenly he was everywhere. Ernst Billgren went in to the movies, the theater and television. He became a public persona, a Swedish Warhol or...
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2011-07-25
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Jag håller med om att boken är intetsägande. Precis därför den är dålig, därför att den ger ett alldeles för lättvindigt perspektiv på vad konst betyder.
2009-07-29
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Överraskande uppfriskande. Inga stordåd här, men uppfriskande, som sagt.
2009-06-11
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Den mest intessägande böcker jag läst, du får inga svar på frågorna och det är underbart! Man förstår i alla fall konceptet och bredden av vad konst faktiskt är.
