Patrik Berg and Erling Valtyrson - Together

It is now five years since Valtyrson had an exhibition in the Kunstverket gallery. On this occasion, he has put together images for an exhibition he himself believes are representative together with Berg’s graphic production, including several mezzo-tints in a somewhat larger format than before and where some motifs have also taken a completely new direction. Valtyrson himself says that: «it will be nice with Patrik in the showroom. A graphic designer I value highly. Two generations of graphics. Patrik has what I call a sensitive eye for the graphic, and it’s just something you have and something you do not acquire. “

For Patrik Berg, the process starts with an intuitive drawing directly on the copper plates. In some works, he has “decorated” with sugar aquatint and printed everything himself in small editions, but at the same time believes that it will be best when it does not feel completely like it is only he who has made the finished art. Although Berg works in a figurative tradition, he is probably more concerned with the abstract qualities of the image. Berg writes himself”I was very happy when Erling asked me to exhibit together, thinking there will be a very nice dynamic in the exhibition with Erling’s dark and exact mezzotint set up against my slightly lighter and expressionist landscape settings. What I can see as a common denominator is that we work with atmosphere and composition within a classical art-graphic tradition. I will show a selection of etchings from recent years. The theme is landscape, time and atmosphere. “