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Jan Kjetil Bjørheim
1 - 30 November 2021 Jan Kjetil Bjørheim sees his art practice as an interdisciplinary exercise. It manifests through organisational, curatorial, performative and object-based practices. Bjørheim has a growing desire to expand his field of action, which arises out of existential questioning and sociological engagement. Depending on the project Bjørheim often uses text, actions, or materials to develop his works. Recently Bjørheim has focused on paintings and found that they have developed his curiosity and given new and challenging contradictions between a refined aesthetic finish and the experience of psychological exposure. Our lives are full of wonderings, places of memories, and the places that whiter away. We exist in a continuous circle of meetings, creations of meanings and the euphoria of life. Then it is over again, the concepts whiter away, some fundamental perversion awakes. In my attempt to preserve the pleasures and greatness I found myself in the infinity of looking. In my search paint, colours and materiality leads me through actions of contradiction, lust, powers and the burning desire to be something. I collect fragments of movements, nature, structures that define us and the space of minds. Jan Kjetil Bjørheim Bio: Jan Kjetil Bjørheim lives in Stavanger Norway. Kjetil holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Kjetil has exhibited in the international touring exhibition Nature Morte: Contemporary artists reinvigorate the still-life tradition, Do Something Different, Barbican, London, Golden Rain in collaboration with Michael Petry, part of Stavanger 2008, On The Edge. His work is part of the Golden Rain permanent installation at Palm Spring Museum, USA and Hå County collection, Norway. Kjetil is in the following publications: the Thames and Hudson's Nature Morte and Kunstverk BKFR 80 år. Kjetil has worked as assistant curator at Royal Academy Schools Gallery, Leader of exhibitions, Garborgsenteret, Jærmuseet, Bryne, Norway, Leader of exhibitions, KINOKINO Kunstsal, Norway and curator of Exhibitions at Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norway, @MOCALondon_WE @jan_kjetil_bjoerheim_artist linktr.ee/Kjetilkunst |
Image List
1 - 7. Your very own path, (hommage to Dombrovski), 2021, Acrylic painting on cotton. The frame from this painting is from a wonderful Hungarian painter Dombrovski who escaped his home country and stayed most of his life at a coasted village called Brusand. 116 cm x 89 cm. 8. Rainbow landscape, 2020, acrylic painting on circular canvas, 110 cm diameter. 9 - 10, 12 - 14. In My World, 2021, acrylic painting on canvas, 150 x 120 cm, (sold to the singer Rita Eriksen). 11. Rainbow sun, 2021, acrylic painting on circular canvas, 100 cm diameter. 15.Your very own path, Rainbow heart, Rainbow sun and In my world, collage for instagram MOCA London WE. |