Frankie Fouganthin

Education & professional background

Social and business administration basic education. Work in health care, mental care, prison care. Official in the private business world. University studies. Chairman of the student area association. Board assignments within university departments. High school teacher in political and economic history, religion and social studies. Entrepreneur. Publisher. Co-founder of the travel magazine Vagabond. Journalist. Project manager.

Social background and interests

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Short background

Working class background. Growing up in Västergötland. Work and university studies in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Startup companies and travels around the world. Living in Stockholm.

Cultural and natural interests

Consumer of The arts; theater, dance, music, literature, poetry, architecture, exhibitions, lectures. Nature interests, sailing, cycling. Skydiver for many years. Great admirer of the Swedish Cultural Heritage. Stockholm Lover.

Natural science

Geography, biology, physiology, palaeontology, anthropology, archeology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, technology, physics, astronomy and other natural science.

Culture

In all its forms and periods

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Architecture

Le Corbusier, Miles van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto, Jörn Utzon, Ragnar Östberg, Gunnar Asplund, Zaha Hadid and many others.

Art

Artists who shaped art history through groundbreaking styles, from cubism and pop art to minimalism and conceptualism: Picasso, Warhol, Yayoi Kunama, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois and others.

Classical music

Monteverdi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Bartok, Stravinskij, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, and many others.

Documentary film

(Unknown Russian photographer, 1929)

Exhibitions

Festivals

Films

Chaplin, Bunuel, Fellini, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Kurozawa, Kubrick, Herzog, Kieslowski, Fassbinder, Tanner, Tarkovskij, Bergman, Troell, Andersson, and many others.

Lectures & debates

Literature

Dostojevskij, Tjechov, Kafka, Mann, Musil, Joyce, Faulkner, Camus, Borges, Milosz, Kundera, Handke, Pinter, Strindberg, Söderberg, Martinsson, Moberg, Johnson, Kyrklund, Gustafsson, Enquist, and many others.

Magazines

Of all kinds and in all forms.

Modern dance

Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, John Neumeier, Birgit Cullberg, Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman, Benke Rydman, and many others.

Museums

Some of the over 1000 museums I have visited around the world: Louvren, British Museum, Tate Modern, Science Museum, Imperial War Museum, Pergamon Museum, Rijksmuseum, Museo del Prado, Acropolis Museum, The Uffizi Gallery, Taj Museum, Agra, American Museum of Natural History, Met, New York, National Gallery of Art i Washington D.C, Hermitage Museum, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano,

Opera

Mozart's The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, Verdi's La traviata and Rigoletto, Puccini's La Bohème and Tosca. And many more.

Photography

Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vivian Maier,Joel Meyerowitz, Annie Leibovitz, Lennart Nilsson, Martin Parr, Christer Strömholm, Helen Levitt, Lars Tunbjörk, and many others.

Rock music

Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury/Queen, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant/Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Stevie Nick/Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Simon & Garfunkel, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bruce Springsteen, Marvin Gaye, U2, Otis Redding and many others.

Poetry

Goethe, Bellman, Franzén, Tegnér, Geijer, Stagnelius, Almqvist, Runeberg, Strindberg, Heidenstam, Fröding, Ferlin, Österling, Andersson, Södergran, Boye, Ekelöf, Dagerman, Tranströmer, Lugn, Öijer, and many others.