About Gun Mattsson
print version
The same year
she began to show her pictures at societies for art and culture, companies,
public institutions and galleries.
Some sort of a story told with the picture is very important, so is of course
also colour and form. Her pictures are inspired by curiosity about what is going
on in the surrounding world at different levels. She often works for a long time
with her figures. The pictures may sometimes give a calm, meditating feeling to
the regarder, like being in the eye of a hurricane, for a quiet moment in the
centre, though close to the edge of chaos.
The world of fairy tales and legends goes together with history, old cultures and religions of mankind, the real world of today, and in addition to all this - new scientific discoveries.
Religions and philosophy have always had a great impact on our lives. A deep spiritual fundament, which she thinks always is there, could make harmony possible. But different interpretations conquer. The relation between ground and surface is interesting, whether concerning individual behaviour or human ideas on the global level. Nevertheless it is sad that the common ground is so hard to find.
Animals often occur in the pictures because of their beauty, powerfulness and influence on our feelings – sometimes they may even have a hybrid form. But they will always point at circumstances, concerning humanity as well.
By using
the theatre scenes as a background for the play of life, it is possible to give
a strong expression to the picture and opportunities for the viewer to make
their own personal interpretations.
Often scenes from different areas and periods can be found in the same picture.
Maybe the world is really created in that mixed quant physical way? In the
mimicry and body positions the figures show some sort of keys to how they relate
to themselves, each other and floating time.
Perhaps you will make your own fantasy journey in regarding her artwork. She would be very pleased.
Techniques:
aquarelle/gouache, oil, acryl and prints.
CERTIFIED by MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS
100 artists worldwide
TITLE OF HONOUR: Knight of the Art
CoAt of Arms
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Member of P.A.A.S.B.
(Permanent Artistic Archive of Studio Byblos)
MEMBER OF IMAGE COPYRIGHT IN SWEDEN
Konstnärernas Riksorganisation, KRO (The National Organization of Artists)
PRIZES/AWARDS:
PRIZES:
THE LEONARDO DA VINCI PRIZE
2009
at the Biennale of Chianciano, Museo d'arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy.
Second prize in painting. Link prize. Link to jury.
SALENTO
PORTA D´ORIENTE INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD 2012 – “La Manifestazione Internationale
di Arte, di Scienza e di Cultura, tra le più importanti d´Europa”
The Honor Committee/Associazione Culturale “Italia in Arte”.
Link invitation
1.
International art award NETTUNO 2012
(marblestatuette) Link
The Prestigious Art Award Neptune Award 2012, considering “your artistic
expression realized in your visual art, the outcome of your intellectual
perceptiveness and cultural sharpness”.
2.
Special
award, human rights, SPARTACUS 2012
The Prestigious Human Rights Spartacus Award 2012, considering “individual,
social, professional effort revealing the important message of peace and freedom
for future generations”.
Link
3. The official
investiture of “MAESTRO BENEMERITO and
Honorary Member”.
Link
Motivation: The
prestigious Awards represent ”praises for your daily efforts ensuring lifeblood
not only to your inspiration but also to all international Community”.
December 15,
2012 Ceremony at the Monumental Antico Teatro “G. Paisiello” Lecce, Italy,
together with religious, civil and military Authorities, Guests of honour from
the world of painting, sculpture, criticism, literature, music and science.
PREMIO
INTERNAZIONALE DELLA PACE
nel Mondo NELL`ARTE
- PEACE PRIZE
G.O.M.P.A
/ associated to United Nations Link
MICHELANGELO PRIZE MEDAL 2013
assigned by Dr. Francesco Saverio Russo.
Also managing EA Editore, publishing the prestigious "OVER ART" .
ITALIA IN ARTE: Salento Porta d ´Oriente, INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD "APOLLO
2013"
High recognition to personalities in the world of art, science and culture.
link prize (marblestatuette)
ITALIA IN ARTE: Salento Porta d´Oriente, SPECIAL AWARD HUMAN RIGHTS
"FRANCESCO IL FRATE DI ASSISI"
( Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti dell´Uomo - New York 1948 )
Link
International Art and Culture Award " Salvo d´Acquisto
2014"
(Salvo d´Acquisto
is considered to
be a Roman Catholic martyr from the second World War and has been
proposed by the Holy See for beatification, the
third of four steps regarding Canonisation).
Associazione Culturale "Italia in Arte" (marblestatuette)
Link
Link Diploma
SALENTO PORTA D´ORIENTE - XV Editione - Italia in Arte
INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD
(The award is not a competition between artists but , otherwise, is a
HIGH-LEVEL-PRAISE.)
1) RAFFAELLO SANZIO 2014 (marblestatuette) Link Link diploma Link jury
2) DIPLOMA - HONORARY MEMBER 2015; by the Scientific Committee of Honor. - High Recognition to personalities in the world o Art, Science and Culture.
3) SPECIAL AWARD HUMAN RIGHTS - NELSON MANDELA.
Gun Mattsson has been given the title: Ambassador for "La Cultura nel
Mondo" Link
diploma
"Oscar dell´ Arte". Premio Biennale per le Arti Visive 2015
Award 24 october 2015, at hotel Monte Carlo Bay, Monaco Link statuette
"INTERNATIONAL
FINE ART CANNES PRIZE" awarded by MAMAG, Modern Art Museum
Awarding Ceremoni during the opening of INTERNATIONAL FINE ART CANNES BIENNALE
,
during the Cannes film festival 2016, at the Boulevard de la Croissette
Link
2017 HIGHEST HONOR -
CAVALIERE ART
through Fondazione Costanza
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Winner OF THE 3rd PRIZE IN
EXPRESSIONISM PAINTING AT THE BIENNIAL IN MOROCCO 2017
Link
ACCADEMIA ITALIA IN ARTE NEL MONDO ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE:
1. International ART AWARD ”JULIUS CAESAR IMPERATOR”
2018 Link
Link 2
2.
Title of honor “MAESTRO” Motivation: ”DISTINKTI HOMINIS POLITA ARS,
NOSTRAE HODIERNAE SOCIETATIS FUNCTIONI HISTORICAE, LOGICAE ET CRITICAE VOCEM
PLENAM DARE SCIT, QUIA ILLE OFFICII PRECIPUI OMNIUM SUARUM ACTIONUM, BENE
FACTORUM, AD DOCTRINAM PERTINENTIUM ET RERUM NATURAE ET CONTEXTUM IN QUIBUS
ILLAE SE APERTIUNT. PROPRIA ET ASSIDUA INVESTIGAZIONE, UT AEQITATE ANIMIQUE
CONCENTIONE AETATEM SUAM AESTIMET”
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1. INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD TRIBUTE TO PABLO PICASSO 2018. Given by ACCADEMIA
ITALIA IN ARTE NEL MONDO ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE in the memory of his painting
“GUERNICA”. Receiver: International high recognized personalities in Art,
Science and Culture.
Link
Link
Link statuette
2. HUMAN RIGHTS
New York 1948-2018.
Under The High protection of Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino
The PRIZE WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE ANNIVERSARY FOR:
ALDO MORO 40 year, 1978-2018 (the attac in Rome)
NELSON MANDELA 100 year since birth, (fighting against apartheid)
MARTIN
LUTHER KING 50 year 1968-2018, (the attac in Memphis)
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY ”BOB” 50 year 1968-2018 (the attac in Los Angeles).
Link
3.
Hommage
a VOLTAIRE (Francois-Marie
Arouet) 300 year 1718-2018 (The tragedi ”Edipo”)
Link
Gala
evening at Monumental Theater "APOLLO" of Lecce,
19
december 2018. Link
HONORABLE
MENTIONS:
International Cultural Union, Femina 2000, Israel
Link
Artoteque iBiennal 2008-2009, Honorable Award
Art Addiction Medial Museum 2010-2012, London In Honoris/Diploma of
excellence Link
London Art Biennale 2013, Special mention for excellence.
Link
The Beverly Hills Award 2013, USA
Palm Art Award 2014, Certificate of Excellence. Länk
THE "RED MAN" INTERNATIONAL HUMOUR ART BIENNAL OF CHINA,
Beijing 2015
Link
diploma
OTHER DISTINCTIONS:
Premio Alba 2010: Diploma di Merito terzo Millennio.
Galleria d´Arte Moderna Alba, Ferrara, Italy
Premio Artisti Internazionale: Per le Arti Visive e Nuove Technologie del
terzo Millennio.
Galleria “Il Collezionista”, Roma, Italy
2011
Artisti Internazionale: Trofeo Arte e Cultura, per la validita´delle
opere.
Galleria “Il Collezionista”, Rom, Italien.
Link
NOMINATED:
to
the prestigious international prize "Palm Art Award" 2012/2014 (Leipzig, Germany)
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REPRESENTED IN ARTBOOKS:
“International Contemporary Masters"
2008, 2009 and 2010. (World Wide Art Books, USA)
juried prestigious publication.
"International Encyclopaedic Dictionary" (publisher Alba Italy 2009/2010)
(well known modern artists in different époques and styles in the 2000th
century
to the more eclectic artists in the 2100th century)
"Creative Genius" (Masters Of Today/MOT, London 2012)
“Artisti Internazionali” 2011 (volume 1)
Associazione Internazionale Galleria “Il Collezionista”
Annuario per Artisti di Successo 2012 (volume 2)
Associazione Internazionale Galleria “Il Collezionista”
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Selected
Contemporary International Artists 2012 / Golden Edition
( Museum of the Americas Artists Library)
"IsegnalatI"
International Art 2013 Selection - Curator: Dott. Salvatore Russo
Presentation of the Book at Amart Gallery, Bruxelles, May 2013, and in New York
2014.
Copies to the Louvre, Paris/ Tate and British Museum, London/Prado,Madrid/
Metropolitan, NewYork/Erimitage of St Petersburg/ Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam/
Musei Vaticani/ Guggenheim, Bilbao and others.
“Important World Artists” 2013
(World Wide Art Books, USA)
(juried publication)
"Art in America 2013",
prestigious magazine and Annual guide
(Selected by Museum of Americas as one of ten artists).
WHO IS WHO in
visual art 2014 ( prestigious reference literature)
Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig German National Library
link certificate
PROTAGONISTI DELL ARTE 2014
Painting and graphic art from the 17th century until today.
( the historical directions of Art)
Curator: Art critic Paolo Levi
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The new heirs of Rembrandt - historical paths of the Figurative
Art.
The history and the works of great masters
of the informal art: Rembrandt, Botticelli, Monet,
da Vinci, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Goya
and Renoir
Special Edition 2014
EFFETTO ARTE
link invitation
The Best Modern and
Contemporary Artists
from Cezanne, Chagall, Dali, Picasso etc...
"This book aims to be the most important showcase to admire the great works,
that are
intended to remain in history." (Salvatore och Francesco Saverio Russo,
editors and two of the
greatest Connoisseurs of Contemporary Art.)
The book was presented the 16 april 2014 at Galleria L´Agostiniana, Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
ALBO CELEBRATIVO
1914 - 2014
"Italia in Arte"
From Futurism to Street Art Paintings
From Bayonet to the Atomic Bomb
(Besides Art and Military History, the book is also dedicated to
progresses, investigations and discoveries of all kind in science during the
century, just to mention the first heart-transplantation
and the first man on the moon.
(Also pointing at the revolutionary social and political changes during this
time, altogether affecting
the history of Art as well as the history of Humanity.)
EFFETTO ARTE 2014
Cover Gun Mattsson
Curator: Art critic Paolo Levi
ATIM´s TOP 60 MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2014
A critic juried selection of Top International Artists
and
Vivid Arts Network
Arttour International Magazine / New York/
During "The Florence Designweek", video display in Palazzo Borghese and
broadcasted by National TV
Incredible World
Artists 2016
published by
WWAB (World Wide
Art Books) California, USA
POLYCROMIA
2016
(Copies to the most important museums like The Louvre Paris, The State
Hernitage St Petersburg, The British Museum London, The Prado Madrid, The
Metropolitan Museum New York, and The Uffizi Gallery Florence)
Editor of Studio Byblos International Editing House:
Dino Marasà
Chief of artistic-scientific board:
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Constantino
ART COMPASS
2016
Art Domain Whois Verlag, Leipzig, Germany
Who´s Who in Visual Art - 101 Artists in Painting, Graphic Art Digital Art,
Sculpture. Vol 2017
101 Top Artists of our day - The absolute elite
A prestigious book, available world wide, even for art education,
collected and archived by
German National Library.
ART
ALBUM project 2017
A website, a digital book
and a printed book (ISBN) featuring an international elite, exclusive
Masters, chosen by Dino Marasà, art critic. "Art Album é riservato ai veri
Maestri protagonisti dell´arte!"
Art album project is on the National Geographic TOP 10 LIST and
spread world wide. (Available at Amazon and other important Publishers)
GUN MATTSSON: Portraits
(personal book)
Edition by the international publisher Studio Byblos Publishing House.
Introduced at Frankfurter Buchmesse, Germany 2018, ISBN 978-88-85862-02-9
Will be marketed internationally in Bookstores, Amazon and more.
LA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
58th International
Art Exhibition
published
by, World of Art
Magazine 2019
Guggenheim museum,
published by, World
of Art Magazine 2020.
POLYCROMIA
international 2020
Studio Byblos
Dino Marasà
Art World
2020
Studio Byblos
Dino Marasà
POLYCROMIA GOLD EDITION 2022
Studio Byblos
Dino Marasà
Coming:
Art for peace 2024
art against every kind of war
Studio Byblos
Dino Marasà
Will be publisched on March 21 2024 and will be available in all bookstores in
the world
and on Amazon
From European Commission
The Cabinet of President Ursula VON DER LEYEN
sending ”Thanks" to the publisher of the book ” Art for Peace. after sharing the link to this book, with the message ” The President appreciate your dedication to promoting peace through Art.
WEBB:
The Best International Contemporary Artists
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Represented:
In several European countries, in USA and Canada.
In the permanent collection of:
South Nevada Museum Of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA,
Museum of
The Americas, Florida
Mamag
Modern Art Museum,
Austria
YUKYUNG ART
MUSEUM, Geoje, South Korea
Ceteris
paribus:
One
of those who founded the Graphic Art Group VGG in Stockholm 1992.
Member in the
FENIX Group who together with the leading board of Sollentuna community
organized Edsvik Art Hall at the Castle of Edsberg 2004
Curiosities:
1. BA: Art
history,
philosophy and political science
2. BA: Cultural Science
3. Socionom studies
Additionally: Studies in Freudian Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy
Favorite hobby: Classical music.
EARLIER Member of:
Svenska
Konstnärsförbundet (Swedish Art Society)
Konstnärernas Kollektivverkstad, KKV (The Artists Collective Workshop)
Graphic
Art Group VGG
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP:
Konstnärernas Riksorganisation, KRO (The National Organization of Artists)
In the beginning of 1985 she started to work hard with the aquarelle and gouache techniques and she loved the miniature form.
1986 she made a private painting and study tour to England, France and Spain.
