At Art Cologne 2006 Forsblom Gallery presented works by the young finnish artist HC (Hans-Christian) Berg. HC Berg was born 1971 in Esbo, Finland. He was awarded the National Young Artist of the Year Award for 2007. Frej Forsblom talks about the gallery’s program, and the work of HC Berg. Current exhibition at the gallery is Peter Halley (November 10, 2006 – January 10, 2007). In 2007 the gallery celebrates its 30th anniversary. Galerie Forsblom, Art Cologne, November 2, 2006.
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00:00 We are here at Galerie Frostborn from Helsinki and welcome to Münster, Frostborn.
00:07 Yes.
00:08 You are the gallery owner?
00:09 Yes, me and my father. My father started the gallery already in 1977.
00:14 So we have a 30-year anniversary next year.
00:18 So you have a lot of experience in doing art shows of course, but also in the art business.
00:24 Well yes, I mean of course I've been in the business already all my life.
00:33 All my free time I always own it, in that I'm the gallery's owner as well.
00:38 Of course this is a very interesting job, but it's always a hobby.
00:44 You brought some interesting arts to the gallery. Perhaps you can give some names.
00:54 Yes, well we always try to work with Finnish and international artists.
01:04 We brought here for example a Finland, Hosea Väri, and also Tomi Toija, and also a very popular person, a little bit more established, Peetil.
01:24 Hosea Väri is one of the gifted young artists in Finland at the moment.
01:31 We selected actually now a young artist from Finland in 2007 for next year.
01:38 Basically he works through light, he makes sculptures.
01:47 For now he's more concentrated on these acrylic boxes, which they have like a working three-dimensional way.
02:00 You can see the drawing in front and at the same time inside.
02:07 At the same time the people can see themselves with the piece. So it's very interactive.
02:15 Is this plexiglass he uses?
02:17 Yes, it's plexiglass, totally.
02:19 He's not only specializing in plexiglass, he also has other sculptures.
02:25 Yes, he works very much with glass as well.
02:30 Here in our salon in South Entrance you can find his 3-meter high sculpture from glass and stainless steel.
02:39 So he's very much interested in light?
02:43 Yes, absolutely. He tries to sculpt light.
02:50 Is he a young painter?
02:52 No, he's 35 years old. He's pretty much been working for about 10 years.
03:01 We've been showing him internationally for 3 years.
03:10 Are you happy with the flow this year?
03:12 Absolutely, we are very happy.
03:14 They have done a lot of effort to make the fair better.
03:20 I think they are succeeding in the flow.
03:23 We had a lot of visitors yesterday and also today has been quite busy.
03:29 We must say that we are very happy.
03:32 Is there a town show?
03:35 We have no rosette there. It's still going until Sunday.
03:39 Then next week, Friday, we can have a feature hall.
03:42 So thank you very much for the interview.