Artist Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad
Painting on canvas
Signed bottom right
Acrylic paint on canvas
Size h 106 × w 90 cm
Year: 2010–2020
From something old, something new emerges. Layer upon layer. Line by line in Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstads painting Urban Madonna. There is something about the choices that bombard us all the time. Sometimes we start walking in one direction, but then the path becomes too narrow, suddenly changes direction, maybe we choose the wrong intersection or it simply takes us back to where we started. Sometimes a shortcut and other times a detour. For me, the layered lines in Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad's work are symbols of such paths. And the layers are like the dimensions that are created through life's experiences and trials. This comes across so clearly in the many portrait-like paintings and drawings he creates. The furrows of life. In this picture, Urban Madonna, this effect is reversed from how he usually paints. In this, it is the background that shows the paths, while the face, of what I imagine is a woman, has the Mona Lisa's mysterious figure and she is without a labyrinth of lines.
Artist Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad
Painting on canvas
Signed bottom right
Acrylic paint on canvas
Size h 106 × w 90 cm
Year: 2010–2020
From something old, something new emerges. Layer upon layer. Line by line in Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstads painting Urban Madonna. There is something about the choices that bombard us all the time. Sometimes we start walking in one direction, but then the path becomes too narrow, suddenly changes direction, maybe we choose the wrong intersection or it simply takes us back to where we started. Sometimes a shortcut and other times a detour. For me, the layered lines in Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad's work are symbols of such paths. And the layers are like the dimensions that are created through life's experiences and trials. This comes across so clearly in the many portrait-like paintings and drawings he creates. The furrows of life. In this picture, Urban Madonna, this effect is reversed from how he usually paints. In this, it is the background that shows the paths, while the face, of what I imagine is a woman, has the Mona Lisa's mysterious figure and she is without a labyrinth of lines.
