Bjørn Ransve at Oslo Kunsthandel ending 06.11.2016

 Farge i farge I, 1990. Litografi 110,5 x 82,1 cm

 Form i form, rød 2011. Litografi 69,9 x 8289,2 cm

Making space for wondering!

Bjørn Ransve creates a space for wondering with his latest exhibition at Oslo Kunsthandel. The title of the exhibit, "Reduction and complexity", does not really serve artist or art proper justice. These prints silently confront and engage you. The artist's intention evokes reflection, opens new room for wondering. The expression is minimalistic and technically it is reduced down to the core. This opens up for creative interpretations. Perhaps one should not say too much about what happens facing Ransves nonfigurative and meditative prints. It is an intellectual and demanding encounter, and it is very much about color. Ransves mastery is as much in his use of coulours as part of the composition as his modern, abstraction. I'm left with no answer, but many good questions. And so grows the exhibition as one moves from image to image. Maybe it could have been curated a little better, but the white walls exposes pictures as exclamations. They require of everyone and everything: both wall and viewer. Bjørn Ransve never lets you in peace once he has reached your imagionation with his silent questions and wondering. He will haunt my perception for the comming days - if not forever. 

 I think it's fair to call him "artist of artists”.

Observingart: Picasso

Self Portrait. Barcelona or Paris, 1901 

Pen and sepia ink on cardboard 12.8 x 9.8 cm 

Gift of Pablo Picasso, 1970

Museu Picasso, Barcelona

Louisiana on Paper Picasso before Picasso
28 drawings from Museu Picasso, Barcelona
29 June - 11 September 2016

The exhibition Louisiana on Paper – Picasso before Picasso features 28 of Picasso’s earliest works, all in the collections at Museu Picasso in Barcelona, where some of the few drawings extant from the very earliest period are still preserved. 

The exhibition shows the birth of the genius through a number of examples that contain the seed of the Picasso who left his mark on most of art history in the first half of the twentieth century. 

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ICEBERG (detalj) 

pen, acrilyc and bitumen on paper

"My research is focused on human shape and on symbolic aspects trying to counterpose visible and invisible. I research the submerge part of human being, his psychophysical structure."

Take a look at Moira Francos work at

Galleri Ramfjord webpages.

La Que Sabe 2014
pencil on paper
33 x 48 cm

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Self Portrait (5/16), 1965. 

VejleMuseerne – Kunstmuseet 

© Gernes Estate.

Poul Gernes

I cannot do it alone – want to join in?

2 June - 16 October 2016

Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is one of the truly great Danish artists of the post-war generation, and for years 

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has wanted to shed light on this impressive and insistent figure. Outside the

borders of Denmark, too, interest in Gernes has been notable – from Documenta in Kassel in 2007, through 

Deichtorhallen in Hamburg to the museums in Lund and Malmö in 2010.

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Francis Bacon, 1909-1992
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho 1967
Oil paint on canvas
1980 x 1475 mm

Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms

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Tate Liverpool: Exhibition

18 May – 18 September 201

Image: Image: ARMANDO MARINO,  Victorious II, 2015, 240 x 179 cm. SUMMERTIME 16 THE BIG ANNUAL GROUP SHOW 27.05.16-13.08.2016 Galleri Christoffer Egelund

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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, A Study for Hercules, in three-quarter-length, 1640s.
Photographer / Source  Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum

The Nationalmuseum has acquired a red-chalk figure study for a Hercules, in three-quarter-length from the 1640s by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino. The drawing that in the 18^th century belonged to the Swedish diplomat and art collector Count Carl Gustaf Tessin has thus been reunited with the main part of his drawings collection in the museum’s holdings. 

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Lars Bohman Gallery: 

Last week for Helena Blomqvists exhibition Florentine
The show runs through April 24.

Daybed Portrait 1963, 2016
Fine Art Print
108 x 130 cm

Observeart: William Hogarth. A Harlot’s Progress and Other Stories- the National Gallery of Denmark

William Hogarth
First Stage of Cruelty
1750 - 1751
433 x 362 mm
SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark

Prostitution, poverty, violence, drunkenness and deceit. A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark focuses on the British artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697–1764). His original series offered wry commentaries on eighteenth-century city life, and he is now regarded as one of the first major English artists. 

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Observingarts: Palle Nielsen

Palle Nielsen, print 208, 1992.

Observingarts: Beckerskonstnärsstipendium 2016 – Tomas Lundgren at Färgfabriken

For this exhibition at Färgfabriken, Lundgren have produced two new series of paintings , Mirroring portion 1-4 and Apart del 1-10 . 

The exhibition also features the series Variations from the 2015th

Se Tomas Lundgrens portefolio here

Observingarts: Steven Daily art "Herculees beetle", study

Enjoy the repost of a study from Steven Daily. 

This piece is really a good reason to check out Stevens page - see below: 

Steven Daily art "Herculees beetle", study. 

Find more at : http://www.stevendailyart.com/

Observingarts:"Why should there be any shortcuts"?

The quote is from an 31.10.15 article in FT "I love this language of ink", portraing 

Chinese artist Lui Dan. He exhibits at Eskenazi in London. 

Get to know this artist better.