Halvor Rønning works with non-figurative painting, but often integrates photographs from popular culture and advertising, such as fashion photography, interior design magazines or images from erotic glossy magazines. Rønning prints overpainted, then scanned, magazine pages on canvas, then paints over again. He combines these with completely abstract paintings. He starts with what he refers to as 'a proposal', which either remains, or is painted over to create a new proposal which he then perhaps paints over again. His process of suggestion and overpainting gives an expression akin to lyrical abstraction, a direction in painting that aims to evoke feelings and sensations rather than directly depicting recognizable subjects.
Through its combination of abstraction and overpainted photographs, a fusion of popular culture and abstract painting is created. Rønning does not consider the process of repeated overpainting to be only his own idiom, he refers to it as an ‘appropriated tradition’. But with this process of overpainting, Rønning still achieves a distinctive painterly expression. The works embrace the ambiguity inherent in the meeting between the aesthetics of glossy magazines and painterly abstraction.
Galerii nimi: LNM
Address: Kongens gate 2, 0153 Oslo, Norway
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11:00 - 17:00 Sat-Sun 12:00 - 16:00
Open: 10.08.2023 — 10.09.2023
Types of art: Other
Address: Kongens gate 2, 0153 Oslo, Norway
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11:00 - 17:00 Sat-Sun 12:00 - 16:00
Open: 10.08.2023 — 10.09.2023
