If I was trying to be more accurate, this posts should be titled: Meat, Champagne, Art and Cigar. But I didn’t have a good photo for that title. So I settled for Croissant and cigarettes.
This past weekend I flew down to Paris to attend my friend, Espen Dietrichson, gallery opening. Hanging in Paris in the spring, with no greater plans, in good company and surrounded by lovely creative people, is definitely something I can suggest to anyone.
A bonus was that Espens brother, Ketil Dietrichson, had been stranded in Paris due to Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption. Ketil works in LA as cinematographer, so never really thought out path would cross. Ketil and I were very much the commercial whores in the otherwise predominantly arty gathering.
Beside all the amazing meat, nice weather, cold drinks and good company, I can strongly recommend anyone looking for nice furniture and decorations to visit the Les Puces de Saint-Ouen flee market.
Espen and I made a deal this summer that I would design and build his website in exchange for 4 of his drawings. Also part of the deal was a promise from his part to do all he could to become a famous artist. So that I in the not too distance future I would be able exchange one of those drawings for a red sports car made in Italy, keep the other two drawings for future maintenance of this red car and the last drawing to decoration the wall next to the car.
I still have some work left to do on the website, but since I’m flying to New Zealand in 10 days, and not coming back until midd of January, we decided to launch it as it is. So guess this is a bit of a unpredicted soft launch.
It’s a very straight forward website. The idea was to keep it simple, nice, appropriate and easy to manage and update. I like it. Espen likes it. Hope you like it, too.
View the website and the work of Espen Dietrichson on:
espendietrichson.com
I went over to Oslo on the May bank holiday weekend to attend Espen Dietrichson’s gallery opening at UKS entitled Sketches for a Mechanical Sunrise. Espen is probably the only one I know who’s working in the creative field but is not doing it commercially, so I find it extremely interesting and fascinating to talk to him about how he approaches his work and his industry and to draw parallels to what I do and the web industry. Make sure you visit his website, espendietrichson.com and have a look at his sculptures. They are stunning.
It was my first time to Oslo, and over our short stay (Friday to Sunday) it left a very good impression. Besides the gallery opening, we had dinner at Ekeberg Restauranten, visited the new Opera house and the Vigeland Sculpture Park. The restaurant had a great location. But, unfortunately, that was about it. The food was pricy and average. The Opera house is impressive (above photograph). Unfortunately you have limited access inside the building. The Vigeland Sculpture Park was beautiful and Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures gave it a unique shade of weirdness (below photograph).
