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”.

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Palle Nielsen, print 208, 1992.

Observingarts: Mimi Yoon at 1XRUN

"The Once Upon A Time No More series illustrates my modern take on fairy tales where the princesses are still beautiful, feminine and innocent, yet they'd no longer take bullying from the villains or wait helplessly for their princes to come to rescue. 

In "Once Upon A Time No More II", Cinderella's done waiting for the prince and wearing the glass slippers... instead she's worked hard (as in the story) and gotten herself a pair of AJ's. My princesses are strong and independent, and they work hard to achieve what they want... but still sweet and feminine." - Mimi Yoon 

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Observingarts: About the Love of Printing, Jim Dine at Museum Folkwang 30 Okt. 2015

Jim Dine 

Pinocchio, 2006

Lithografie

56 x 44 cm

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015

Museum Folkwang is holding a major exhibition on the graphic work of American artist Jim Dine (b. 1935). Dine was one of the most important Pop artists of the 1960s, and won early recognition for his art, not just in the US but internationally. The retrospective coinciding with his eightieth birthday features some 150 works – including woodcuts, lithographs, and etchings – and presents a representative survey of the artist’s work in the graphic medium, spanning more than five decades. More at Museum Folkwang

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Observingarts: Edvard Munch's Rare Woodcut Leads Sotheby's Prints & Multiples Auction In London on 29 September 2015

The motif of Edvard Munch's The Girls on the Bridge has been widely recognised as one of the
artist's most celebrated, from its first unveiling in 1901. Munch went on to produce several versions of The Girls on the Bridge, creating between 1901 and 1935 a total of twelve known oil paintings and a number of variations in etching, lithograph and woodcut. A rare woodcut from 1918, the first documented impression using the colours dark blue, green and bright red-orange against teal-blue, leads Sotheby's biannual Prints & Multiples sale In London on 29 September 2015 with an estimate of £ 200 000 - 300 000. For more info: go to Sotheby's