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The countdown has officially begun - new exhibition opening in May! Some music never dies - it multiplies!
ABBA The Museum has a new permanent exhibition coming !
The World Premiere will take place in May 2018.
The new Exhibition covers everything that came After ABBA - so the whole story will be told at the Museum.
"ABBA THE MUSEUM HAS EXPANDED!
THE MOST COMMON QUESTION WE HAVE
HAD OVER THE YEARS IS: WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE
MEMBERS WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS?
NOW, PREMIERING IN MAY 2018, WE ARE
TELLING THE WHOLE STORY AT ABBA THE MUSEUM! "
Three of the masterminds behind the new exhibition. Museum Director Caroline Fagerlind, Guest Curator Görel Hanser and Creative Director/Curator Ingmarie Halling. Photo: Ivan da Silva för Zap PR
Sneak peak for the press of the new interactive exhibition
Creative
Director/Curator Ingmarie Halling showing one of the new interactive
features in the new exhibition! Here you can step in to the world of
MAMMA MIA
Model of the new After ABBA exhibition
ABBA The Museum After ABBA exhibition, introduced by (from left) Bengt, Caroline, Görel and Ingmarie.
Here you can paint the Mamma Mia door with virtual blue color at the After ABBA exhibition
You can be the conductor of Chess
Ingmarie Halling presents Chess The Musical at the new After ABBA exhibition
Kacey O'Neill from United Kingdom has put in an amazing effort to bring us details and her personal review of ABBA Super Troupers - The Exhibition which opened at the Southbank Centre in London today.
Kacey managed to attend the Press Preview on 13th December - and yes, Bjorn was there !
You can follow any updates on the Facebook page ABBA Info or keep checking back here as Kacey will be providing further information and photos.
ABBA: Super Troupers. - The Review (by Kacey O'Neill)
I made it to the Press Preview of ABBA: Super Troupers on Wednesday
13th December. With representatives from every organisation involved in
putting this exhibition together to Universal Music including Mia
Segolsson. For fans the important players that were present: Bjorn
Ulvaeus, Gorel Hanser and Ingmarie Halling. The room was packed waiting
for the speeches to be done as an introduction to the press for ABBA:
Super Troupers. Bjorn sat in front of us whilst all this was going on,
just another man, another visitor waiting to do his speech. He hadn’t
realise how gloomy the United Kingdom must have been at that time as
ABBA started out on their road to fame. However on that note I must
point out despite the black outs and three day weeks, as a very young
child I remember our home was a safe and happy one. Maybe less is more
in the current climate of materialism. My friend Luke has his photo
taken with Gorel after he had interviewed her for his radio show. She
was happy to have her photo taken with him and said to me ‘’It’s good to
see someone with a real camera taking photos’’. Helga from the ABBA Fan
Club and I later allowed Luke loose with the camera so he could take
our photo in front in the ABBA: Super Troupers Exhibition projection
display.
Onto the actual exhibition itself. The three of us were
booked in for the 11:15 tour. What you have to remember the additional
people attending this tour are also reviewing the exhibition and most
probably not ABBA fans with the knowledge and expectations and may not
fully understand the why the rooms are set out in such a way. Also the
exhibition with it’s artefacts and displays isn’t souley about ABBA. It
is also intertwined with the country’s memories of 1970’s Britain and
what it was like during that time. This exhibition is very different to
ABBA World and ABBA The Museum. You cannot compare ABBA: Super Troupers
to these as that would be unfair and out of context to what The
Southbank Centre are aiming to achieve. With this in mind you will have
wiped all memories of previous exhibitions seen and enjoy the Super
Troupers exhibition for what it is and step back in time.
Our
guide on this tour was Neil – I must add he also a fully fledged ABBA
fan and enjoying every minute of the work and his job in hand. - We go
through a door of a vinyl record into a room of darkness which soon
lights up gradually with a Super Trouper spotlight in and a disco ball
behind us. As we progress through each room we get plenty of information
from our guide interspersed by narrative presented by Jarvis Cocker. An
unexpected choice in fans eyes but his voice brings a familiarity to
the whole presentation. As ABBA songs are played through the speakers
and press people guess the songs there is an odd sensation of movement
with the lights and disco ball spinning, but you are not moving you are
standing still. As the tour progresses you walk through a series of
secret doors from wardrobes – a Narnia moment – to caravans and toilet
doors.
Next room we move into is a typical 1970’s living room,
wow what a throwback. Old TV that works showing archive news footage
(you come to realise that history repeats in a different scenario but we
never learn), radio, a collection of vinyl and through a window a
snatched moment of a kitchen cabinets too. ABBA posters, Lookin
magazines, paper doll cut outs, badges, some archive material and Ring
Ring Gold Disc in a frame. Ok, there is a copy of the band’s album
‘Ring, Ring’ on prominent display in the vinyl. The ABBA fan of the
house could have bought this on import from Adrian’s Records as the
band’s popularity grew during that decade. However Luke and I spotted a
copy of an LP by Anita Dobson so that was definitely out of place being
released in the 1980’s. From here on you understand and realise the
reasons why you cannot take photos of the exhibition. With 16 people
going from room to room, photo opportunities are difficult (mobile
phones get some interference for some reason so it’s best to switch them
off) and most likely detract from actual tour talk/presentation and may
annoy other attendees.
We move onto the next room and for anyone
that is tall some doorways you will have to dip down unless you want to
bang your head! We wait in a small hotel corridor and spot the Fire
Extinguisher with the name ‘Waterloo’. The Napoleon Suite being aptly
named may have prompted Benny at the time to place a bet on winning the
Eurovision Song Contest. All good omens. We go through the door and as
Bjorn says in an interview is the replica of Agnetha and Bjorn’s suite.
You can see celebrations have gone on in this room after ABBA;s win of
the Eurovision Song Contest. Glasses having been filled with drink,
bottles of champagne and chinzano – remember that drink? – You have the
replica Waterloo costumes visible through glass and a replica of Bjorn’s
star guitar displayed right in the middle of the double bed. You watch
ABBA’s performance at the Eurovision Song Contest on a TV screen whilst
perusing through a copy of the local newspaper on the table featuring
all the Eurovision artists. There are news clippings displayed on the
victory, a replica of the Eurovision medal, Agnetha’s hat and other
archive material to view. This is one of my favourite rooms of the tour.
We move onto the Folkes Park room through the bedroom wardrobe
and it is here we have some experience of the Swedish Folk Parks where
thee ABBA members would have performed. Warm balmy nights, hot summer
days with microphones, piano all ready for rehearsal. There is sheet
music photos and doodles by Frida,, Bjorn’s school report, military
enrolment book and other archive material.
The next room was
another favourite of mine. The Polar Studios. Here you are given a set
of headphones to put on to listen to your tour guide, the narration and
of course ABBA’s wonderful music. You see Agnetha’s head phones, an ABBA
Magazine reporting on ABBA in the studio, hand written manuscripts,
archive material all set out in a recording studio. There is a 2 track
analog 1/4’’ tape recorder 24 track analog 2’’ tape recorder along with
other studio equipment. You get the chance to hear ‘Money Money Money’
and mix up or mix down the track which is great fun to do and hear. and
on the video screen in the actual studio you get to see and hear the
video clip of the missing verse of ‘’Dancing Queen’’ that us fans
already know about but most press unaware of and whilst this is playing
you get your own chance to sing the chorus of ‘’Dancing Queen’’ live in
the studio.
We move on to the next room. ABBA on tour in
Australia behind the stage where their dressing rooms are caravans and
boy are they small. I did ask about this and the flooring as there
appeared to be some confusion in some people’s faces. Neil gave a great
answer and confused faces turned to ‘now I understand’. Maybe some had
not experienced the early days of Glastonbury either. Live tour film
footage from ABBA The Movie played in the back ground with interspersed
interviews (similar footage present in ABBA World and ABBA The Museum)
whilst the rain emptied down. The floor was a mixture of grass, dried
mum, gravel stones and wooden slats all under a covered back stage area.
The one caravan set out with an old Kitchen unit, iron make up, bottles
and a gold cape on display behind glass. There was seating outside with
coffee cups and bottles, a suitcase and display material included
photos, news clippings hand written note from Agnetha, signed postcard
and a ‘Bullshit’ list for which the title alone made me laugh! What ABBA
got provided with on tour in 1977 bands and artists would throw a
tantrum and not accept this on their riders. It was all pretty basic
stuff and not the rock and roll you would expect. I rather liked this
room. It gave insight to ABBA back in the day.
Now this is the
room I don’t get. The Nightclub Toilet disco. Walls full of graffiti,
old posters of bands and leaflets stuck to the wall and grotty toilets.
There was also a little bit of public toilets smell in the air. It was
also a room I didn’t pay much attention to apart form the ABBA display
material. It’s connection was to do with night clubs and disco and you
before you enter the room, you as visitors are queuing for the toilets!
The ABBA display material is in the cubicle and sinks and mirror wall.
There are a signed concert ticket and ‘79 tour programme. Other concert
tickets for Wembley and Japan as well as premiere tickets and passes for
concerts and ABBA The Movie. There is a letter from the Police about
Piccadilly Circus regarding ABBA’s request to film the promo video of
‘Super Trouper’. The big display is the tour suitcase that ABBA’s Doctor
used, Benny’s boots from the 77 tour and one of the 1979 tour capes
from the ABBA concerts.
Maybe in place of this room there could
have been an ABBA fan’s typical bedroom with posters on the wall,
memorabilia around, record player, vinyl and seventies fashion to keep
in with the ABBA memories and seventies memories. Far more relative.
Sorry but the Nightclub Toilet Disco just doesn’t work for me and my
reasons are constructive not dismissive.
We move onto the room
reminiscent of ABBA’s video ‘’One of us’’. It is known as the Melancholy
Room and is a front room of unpacked boxes. You have Frida’s green
dress from ‘When All Is Said and Done’ video behind glass. There is a
poster of ABBA The Visitors with an earlier poster of ABBA in their
career and how different it was from beginning to their final studio
album. There is archive material including photos of ABBA at their party
for The Singles The First Ten Years. A press release about Frida moving
to London, the latest ABBA album release and fan letter display. You
also ending up watching ABBA's last interview with Noel Edmonds in 1982
on the TV. In a way you feel that hint of sadness.
The final room
is a luxurious plane flight known as The Legacy. Luxury seating which
we all took the opportunity to sit on!! Luke and I sat in front of the
amazing replica puppets that were used in the Last Video. Those puppets
do look amazing as the last time I saw them was under spotlights and
artificial lighting. There is also a jumpsuit costume and boots worn by
Donna in ‘Mamma Mia!’ and the kimono outfits we all know and love. There
is also the Japanese Gold cassette award for the single ‘Super
Trouper’. As you are seated the plane takes off and you get that take
off sensation and then you view clips of ABBA videos in the window panes
along with clips from films ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ ‘The Adventures Of
Priscilla Queen Of The Dessert’ and a tribute by ‘French and Saunders’
with C’est La vie. It is here the plane descends and lands (no
turbulence by the way) and the tour concludes with the story of ABBA’s
longevity and continued legacy.
Overall, this is a tour. It lasts
one hour and timing is important. You can ask your guide any questions
during the tour and they are happy to answer. The Guides present the
tour very professionally. Ok it may be scripted but there is room for ad
lib. I can draw comparisons to tours I have been on for The Colston
Hall and The Hippodrome in Bristol. The information is informative but
not deep in depth that long term fans could have said ‘well I didn’t
know that’. I’d also would have liked to have seen more material on
display but having said that less is more and it is a taster. You can
use your imagination and knowledge you already have as an ABBA fan. You
are taken on a journey of ABBA and seventies Britain and I thoroughly
enjoyed being a long term fan myself. I didn’t know what to expect but
what is presented is well thought out. You don’t have the chance you go
around the tour at your leisure as you could at ABBA World and ABBA The
Museum and it would be totally unfair to draw comparisons, ABBA: Super
Troupers is a unique exhibition.
I'd give it 81/2 out of 10. But
for fans like us the information provided we already know. For the fan
who loves ABBA's music it would be a good learning curve to learn more
about the band and a little of Britain's history at the time.
Footnote: You asked, I tell. The merchandise shop for ABBA: Super
Troupers is small. There is a selection of ABBA Memorabilia you can buy
that is also available at ABBA The Museum apart from the The Exhibition
bags and poster. There are books, keyrings, postcards, posters, mugs,
ABBA Album Christmas baubles, hats, t-shirts and bags.
Bjorn Ulvaeus gave ITV a tour of the Brighton hotel bedrooms the band
slept in following their stunning Eurovision win in 1974. It's part of a
new immersive exhibition at London's Southbank Centre.
Abba memorabilia fills the rooms, which are connected by secret doors and magical wardrobes
Bjorn Ulvaeus, former band member of the group ABBA, poses for
photographers in a recreation of the Polar recording studio in Sweden,
where the group recorded many of their notable albums including Super
Trouper.
Article from The Guardian:
Abba's Björn Ulvaeus: I had no idea 1970s Britain was so gloomy
Band member speaks at preview of London exhibition that lovingly recreates scenes from era of band’s sensational success
There were endless strikes, power cuts, three-day weeks, TV
programmes that finished at 10.30pm and Noel Edmonds. “You get very
close to the reality of Britain in the 70s,” said Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus.
“I had no idea it was so gloomy.”
Ulvaeus was speaking at the first preview of a new immersive Abba show at the Southbank Centre,
which aims to tell the sensational success story of the band, as well
as put it in the social and political context of 1970s Britain.
Groups of no more than 16 will be taken through nine rooms recreating important moments from the band’s history. Narrated by Jarvis Cocker, the show contains more than 120 archive objects as well as, of course, loads of music.
“It is the opposite of all those huge technically advanced
virtual reality exhibitions that most of those pop groups have,” said
Ulvaeus. “This is much more intimate, it’s warm, it’s full of a sense of
humour.”
Abba burst on to the scene when they won the Eurovision song contest in Brighton in 1974 with Waterloo,
beating Olivia Newton John’s UK entry. “The Abba”, as the TV
commentator called them, were a much needed light in dark, difficult
times.
Ulvaeus said the exhibition, a collaboration with the Abba
Museum in Stockholm, made him realise how “impossibly gloomy” Britain
was. “We were here for one or two days, now and then, so we didn’t quite
know about this.”
It was particularly interesting to see news footage of the debate
around whether to go into Europe, he said. “It was striking … how the
Brits were hesitant about Europe back then, in the very same way as they
are now, which is really sad I think.
The Napoleon Suite at Brighton Hotel
“It was spooky. It’s the same thing again for some reason, trying to
stay away from Europe. It’s like losing, not losing a friend because
you’re still there, but somehow you don’t want to be in the team and I
think that’s sad.”
For some visitors the London exhibition will be nostalgic. There is a
recreation of a chilly 70s front room with depressing news reports on
the telly, candles for when the lights go out, a copy of Look-In, and a
Peters and Lee record that someone hasn’t put back in its sleeve.
An unnecessarily rancid nightclub toilet is lovingly reproduced with
puerile graffiti on the cubicle walls, cigarette ends, unspooled toilet
roll and vomit stains.
The show’s producer, Paul Denton, said the nightclub was there
because it was where so many people enjoyed the music. “Abba only toured
for three months in 10 years, which is unheard of for a band today.”
Bjorn Ulvaeus, former band member of the group ABBA, poses for
photographers in a recreation of the Brighton hotel suite, where the
group celebrated their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest victory
Other rooms in the show include the Brighton hotel suite – the
Napoleon Suite – where Abba celebrated the Eurovision song contest win, a
bottle of Cinzano on the dressing room table.
There is the Polar music recording studio where Abba made records
from 1978 and where visitors can now demonstrate how brilliantly they
too can sing Dancing Queen.
For diehard Abba fans, room eight may be particularly hard to bear:
the split. Denton and his team have created a Swedish apartment full of
half-unpacked boxes, just like the opening scene in Abba’s melancholic One of Us.
The Southbank Centre
show is the finale of its year-long celebration of Nordic arts and
culture. “It has been a fascinating journey,” said the artistic
director, Jude Kelly. “It would have been impossible to celebrate Nordic
culture without thinking about Abba.”
Ulvaeus said he never imagined Abba – who split up 35 years ago –
would last like it has. “It is kind of weird, but you get used to it.”
He said he was exposed to his younger self in some form every day,
which meant he seemed to him to be that “other guy, from way back then.
But I’m proud of what he did, I wouldn’t be where I am today if it
hadn’t been for him.”
Visitors sit in a recreation of ABBA's private jet in the Exhibitions final room.
Visistors sit in a recreation of ABBA’s private jet in the exhibition’s final room
Read more at:
https://inews.co.uk/culture/music/abba-show-recreates-dingy-70s-britain-bjorn-ulvaeus-says-i-didnt-think-wed-last/
Visistors sit in a recreation of ABBA’s private jet in the exhibition’s final room
Read more at:
https://inews.co.uk/culture/music/abba-show-recreates-dingy-70s-britain-bjorn-ulvaeus-says-i-didnt-think-wed-last/
Article from Belfast Telegraph:
Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus: Performing together again would be too much hassle
An immersive Abba exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre takes
visitors inside a dark and dreary British living room and a recording
studio.
Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus said the pop sensations will never perform again
because it would be “too enormous” – as he unveiled a show charting the
rise of the band against the backdrop of “grim”, 1970s Britain.
The immersive exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre takes visitors
inside a dark and dreary British living room, a recreation of the
Brighton hotel bedrooms the band slept following their stunning
Eurovision win, a recording studio and an aeroplane cabin.
Ulvaeus, 72, told the Press Association that the exhibition made him
realise how “impossibly gloomy” Britain was at the time, with a
collapsing economy, a three-day working week, and strikes.
“We were here for one or two days, now and then, so we didn’t quite know about this,” he said.
He said the London venue’s exhibition on another Nordic export, the
Moomins, was one of the reasons he said yes to the “intimate” Abba show,
which is a world away from “those huge exhibitions pop stars usually
have”.
Ulvaeus said that wandering through the show had rekindled old
memories, but that there was no chance of the hit Swedish band
reuniting.
“I walked through yesterday and some of the rooms really took me
back. Especially the (recreation of a) Sydney arena backstage,” he said.
“It was a dark, rainy night when we did a show there. It took me
back. I was so surprised, I didn’t think it would. I really felt, this
is what it was like,” he said.
“The hotel room in Brighton was like the room (bandmate and then
wife) Agnetha (Faltskog) and I must have had, the bed in which I woke up
at 4 o’clock in the morning the day after (their Eurovision win),
finally realising what had happened, because everything was chaos
before.
“It happened overnight so it was, ‘today we’re famous and yesterday we weren’t.”
But Ulvaeus said that performing as a group again was “not going to happen”, adding: “I think we don’t feel the motivation.
“The four of us, with live concerts, no. The simple answer is because
we don’t want to. Why don’t we want to? I guess because it would be
such hassle, it would be enormous. And it would take such… you cannot
imagine the tension and the attention from everyone.
“So it would be like robbing yourself of, perhaps, two or three years
out of your life when I could be paddling on my surf ski in the
archipelago of Stockholm instead. There’s a choice.”
The star said that visiting the exhibition and watching old news
footage broadcast from a TV in the 1970s living room made him realise
some things in Britain had not changed – particularly controversy over
Europe.
“It was striking on that telly, they showed footage from 1973/74, how
the Brits were hesitant about Europe back then, in the very same way as
they are now, which is really sad I think.
“It was spooky. It’s the same thing again for some reason, trying to stay away from Europe.
“It’s like losing, not losing a friend because you’re still there,
but somehow you don’t want to be in the team and I think that’s sad,” he
said of Brexit.
One of the items on display is a report Ulvaeus received from his
music teacher at the age of seven, giving him a B minus, which has been
unearthed from the archives.
“I was forced to play the recorder. They tried to make me do that
when I wanted to play ice hockey. I was not interested in whatever that
teacher had to say,” he said.
“I was probably very unruly during the lessons. I was only seven or
eight. At 12 I was given my first guitar and then I think I got an A
after that. It turned around pretty quickly!”
Jude Kelly, artistic director of the Southbank Centre, said that the
venue’s celebration of Nordic culture would have been “impossible
without thinking about Abba”.
She added: “We have this idea that pop culture is throwaway culture.
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of people who operate in the
cultural space who think that pop culture has less value than what you
might call classical culture.
“But if you think about what charts our lives… we’re often looking at popular music.”
ABBA The Museum presents special exhibition “ABBA in Japan - The last tour” at Yasuragi !
ABBA The Museum and the Japanese spa and conference hotel Yasuragi
are initiating a collaboration, presenting a special exhibition of
ABBA’s last tour in Japan. The exhibition is based on the book ABBA The
Backstage Stories by Ingmarie Halling. Costumes by ABBA’s costume
designer Owe Sandström will also be on display. The exhibition will
moreover feature brand new photographs of ABBA The Museum, captured by
the keen eye and camera of award-winning photographer Mattias Edwall,
who gives us his version of the story of ABBA.
Exhibition advertising in Japan
Ingmarie Halling presents the Exhibition
The Exhibition
ABBA’s last tour
was in Japan in 1980, where they performed their final concert to a
paying audience in Budokan, Tokyo. No one knew then that a few years
later the world-renowned pop group would be taking a pause – never to
perform together again. For the Japanese people, this was an
unforgettable experience, with long-awaited concerts that had been
publicized since 1978 during a promo tour to Tokyo. Ingmarie Halling,
today director of ABBA The Museum, participated in the tour the
following year, and in the exhibition she shares her experience of being
costume manager for the major pop stars.
Ticket from ABBA's last Japan Concert
Replica of ABBA Kimono
“I have very special
memories of the tour of Japan, the respectful audience, the food, the
culture, the contrasts of a country that is both a pioneer in technology
and a preserver of ancient customs. And I will never forget the visit
that Frida and I made to an authentic Japanese bath house. ABBA has a
special relationship with Japan and vice versa, there’s no doubt about
that,” says Ingmarie Halling, Museum Director, ABBA The Museum.
Letter Of Appreciation from Japan
Since
opening in 1997, one of Yasuragi’s goals is to lift Japanese culture
and highlight the connection between Japan and Sweden. The hotel’s
Gallery often features exhibitions that have a connection with Japan, as
well as other themes linked to their operations.
“This is a
unique collaboration between two of Stockholm’s strongest brands. Being
able to work together in the hospitality industry and strengthen
Stockholm as a destination is extremely enjoyable. The story of ABBA’s
relationship with Japan, and the Japanese tribute to the group is worth
telling, and doing so here in our Japanese milieu further enhances the
experience. Our guests will be given fresh insight into the key part of
our cultural heritage that ABBA represents,” comments Florence Cardell,
Marketing and Sales manager at Yasuragi.
Ingmarie with the Japanaese Ambassador Seiji Morimoto
In conjunction with the
exhibition, brand new photographs of ABBA The Museum by Mattias Edwall
are being shown, titled ABBA The Museum + Mattias Edwall = true!
Photo By Mattias Edwall
Ingmarie
Halling says, “With his eye and camera Mattias creates his own
chronicle of our museum. And we are proud to show these photographs for
the first time at Yasuragi. A keen eye, presence and precision are
Mattias’s trademark, it’s like he sees things that others don’t and
teaches us to see them.”
An exclusive collection of different
products created in collaboration with ABBA’s costume designer Owe
Sandström and inspired by the ABBA kimono will be launched on October 6.
The collection will be available at Yasuragi and the ABBA The Museum
shop.
The exhibition will open on October 6, 2015, inaugurated by
the Ambassador of Japan to Sweden, H.E. Mr. Seiji Morimoto, and be on
show at Yasuragi in Saltsjö-Boo through April 15, 2016.
Free entrance.
For more information please contact:
Kersti Olophsdotter, Press Contact Yasuragi kersti.olophsdotter@yasuragi.se Tel: +46 (0) 72-233 05 28
Catarina Falkenhav, Sales & Marketing Director, ABBA The Museum catarina@abbathemuseum.com Tel: +46 (0) 73-360 31 17
ABBA The Museum has a great exhibition for the Limited Edition signed photos by Calvero and all images are available in their shop at the Museum, and online:
The prints are hand signed by Torbjörn Calvero and numbered. Limited Editon with only 35 of each available. The prints come in a gorgeous box with a printed folder that tells the story behind the pictures.
This collection of museum-quality Fine Art Photograph’s has been
produced to the highest standards to be framed and displayed as pieces
of art. Torbjörn Calvero has been involved in the working process, from
scanning of the analogue negatives – all the way to printing, to produce
this highly-collectible collection.
The Museum had a small preview exhibition and here are some images from that:
ABBA The Museum webshop now has some fabulous hand signed and numbered photographs available.
Sweden’s true rock photographer is without a doubt Torbjörn Calvero. His
photographs were never over-arranged but rather reflect private
encounters with the person on the other side of his lens. Torbjörn
followed ABBA through their careers. The following 15 photos of ABBA
have been chosen by ABBA The Museum in collaboration with Torbjörn
Calvero, Link Image Art Edition and Premium Rockshotand are part of our
Fine Art Collection. The photos are signed by Torbjörn Calvero and
numbered. The photos comes in two sizes and each motive/size is sold in
an edition of 35.
Size 1 is 30 x 40cm and costs around $730.00AUD
Size 2 is 50 x 70cm and costs around $1175.00AUD
I wish I had a spare $1200.00 - I would love to have the large one of Agnetha - what a beauty this photo is - and an extremely rare one - never released before !
And the gorgeous Frida rehearsing for the 79 Tour would be a nice addition as well :)
Starting
tomorrow, 23'd of April, we welcome all visitors to our Fine Art
Photography exhibition with 15 fantastic 'forgotten' photos of ABBA
taken by the Swedish rock photographer Torbjörn Calvero!
