Lars Weck, journalist and music writer/critic at Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm Sweden at this point in time .Lars Weck I meet in Paris when he was a correspondent for the Swedish largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter, 1966 in December and he was spending most of his time at the Sorbonne University.
and Bengt Modin one of the technicial assistents at the Swedish Televison Broadcasting Corporation in the 60's.(front right)
This is a picture from an exhibition in Stockhom of paintings on canvas and paper made from MONUMENT 1967by Ture Sjolander and Lars Weck and numbered and signed by them.
In the gallery:you will find Lasse Swanberg from the Swedish Film Institute and part of the members of the Pink Floyd group.
Pink Floyd was very keen to make a contract with me and Lars and was contacting us many times.
I was the one who suggested Janne Karlsson to be an actor and he later on became an actor.
I will explain this on another webpage later. "Scizo Femetti!"!! (DN)
Sven Inge deMoner/ Sven Hoglund, a teenage friend of mine from the northern town of Sundsvall in Sweden came to Stockolm 1967/68 and was invited to participate in the expanding project of MONUMENT. He was asked to make oil/acrylic paintings of the electronic paintings as Lars and myself could not find funds or sponsorship to make silkscreen paintings, machine paintings of a bigger size on canvas. Sven Inge accepted the invitation and created a large number of paintings based on the electronic paintings, created by myself and Lars. The picture above is taken in the Stockholm subway station and shows a large photograpic exhibition by Ture and Lars, sponsored by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter 1968. In the front: Sven Inge Hoglund/demoner and in the background Lars Weck. This was the actual time when Sven Inge get into our project. The two pictures in the middle of the more than 20 meter long artwork show Paul McCartney and Ringo Star from the videoart work MONUMENT.
Photo: Ture Sjolander.
This picture - above - is taken one year later - 1969 - in the Swedish Television studio and after the TV-experiment MONUMENT was done and televised through out Europe. The picture was taken to promote the paintings Sven Inge did later on. He was not at all involved in the creation of the TV-production nor involved in the LP productionof the Monument.
The book MONUMENT was already edited and ready to print when Sven Inge moved in to the project. Lars and myself agree to put Sven Inges name on the book and asked him to write a text to be used as a forword as it could help him to sell his paintings later on. The copyright to the book belongs to Ture and Lars, entirely!
A friend of Sven Inge, the textile artist Kerstin Ohlson from Gothenborg was also invited to make a number of textile tapestries on the very same theme.
A collection of Sven Inges paintings on canvas based on the electronic paintings from MONUMENT by Ture Sjolander and Lars Weck, - in Sven Inges studio 1969.
Original painting from Monument signed by Ture Sjolander. Silk screen on canvas. In the background a very good and old friend of Ture Sjolander..
Picture above: Left; the LP MONUMENT and a picture from Ture Sjolander's and Lars Weck's out door exhibition of posters from Monument. 1968. Left Lars Weck and Right Ture Sjolander.
This is inside of the LP convolute MONUMENT. The picture at the left side shows Janne Carlsson, drums and the picture below is an electronic painting, a portrait of the Swedish King. The next picture show the group behind the LP. From left:Janne Karlsson, Lars Weck Bosse Hansson and Ture Sjolander.
On the right side a collection of electronic film strips from Monument.
1964 Ture Sjolander, a young emerging artist undertakes experiments of modulating the television pictures at the Swedish National Television (Dec 1964 -April 1965) and 1966 the first Video Synthesizer is temporary built for the making of TIME years ahead of Nam June Paik he met in Stockholm late August 1966.
