Contact:
hyperrealist[at]hotmail.com
hyperrealist[at]hotmail.com
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
The paintings convey a perspective that is observational and present, while evoking a sense of being lost in the familiar. Through a heightened state of concentration and attention to detail, the very same perspective can make the viewer loose the sense of what is being looked at.
My artistic project focuses on creating paintings where a renegotiation of the relationship between nature and culture is central. This forms the point of departure for the selection of motifs and sectioning. Through observations of material culture objects or situations in a landscape that seems abandoned by the human, I want to make visible what might otherwise slip by in a haze of the 'ordinary' or 'known'.
I am interested in how cultural objects can appear as remnants of human presence by insisting on details in specific motifs, thereby giving the viewer the opportunity to see something as for the first time. Choices regarding time of day, proximity, location and viewpoint may make the objects speak in a foreign voice. I am interested in how cultural objects can convey the human, in the absence of human beings.
BIO
Sven-Erik Olsen is a Norwegian artist born on April 2, 1956. He uses oil on board with a brush in the traditional photorealist style. He looks at the actual painting process as a translation from photo to painting, where objectivity dominates over the self-conscious and expressive, with a relief from manneristic ‘isms’. His motives often entail observations of material elements in our western culture.
His artistic practice falls into two periods. From 1989 to 1993 he painted under the pseudonym ‘Sven Ervig,’ and since 2009 under his own name.
Sven-Erik Olsen lives and works in Mjoendalen, Norway.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
National Art Exhibition | The Autumn Exhibition 2015
September 12 - October 18
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
www.hostutstillingen.no
National Art Exhibition | The Autumn Exhibition 2014
September 13 - October 12
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
www.hostutstillingen.no
Photorealism Exhibition 2014
June 7 - 17
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
Galerie de Bellefeuille, 1367 avenue Greene, Montreal
http://debellefeuille.com
Beyond Realism Exhibition 2012
September 8 - October 2
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
Galerie de Bellefeuille, 1367 avenue Greene, Montreal
http://debellefeuille.com
The paintings convey a perspective that is observational and present, while evoking a sense of being lost in the familiar. Through a heightened state of concentration and attention to detail, the very same perspective can make the viewer loose the sense of what is being looked at.
My artistic project focuses on creating paintings where a renegotiation of the relationship between nature and culture is central. This forms the point of departure for the selection of motifs and sectioning. Through observations of material culture objects or situations in a landscape that seems abandoned by the human, I want to make visible what might otherwise slip by in a haze of the 'ordinary' or 'known'.
I am interested in how cultural objects can appear as remnants of human presence by insisting on details in specific motifs, thereby giving the viewer the opportunity to see something as for the first time. Choices regarding time of day, proximity, location and viewpoint may make the objects speak in a foreign voice. I am interested in how cultural objects can convey the human, in the absence of human beings.
BIO
Sven-Erik Olsen is a Norwegian artist born on April 2, 1956. He uses oil on board with a brush in the traditional photorealist style. He looks at the actual painting process as a translation from photo to painting, where objectivity dominates over the self-conscious and expressive, with a relief from manneristic ‘isms’. His motives often entail observations of material elements in our western culture.
His artistic practice falls into two periods. From 1989 to 1993 he painted under the pseudonym ‘Sven Ervig,’ and since 2009 under his own name.
Sven-Erik Olsen lives and works in Mjoendalen, Norway.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
National Art Exhibition | The Autumn Exhibition 2015
September 12 - October 18
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
www.hostutstillingen.no
National Art Exhibition | The Autumn Exhibition 2014
September 13 - October 12
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00
Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
www.hostutstillingen.no
Photorealism Exhibition 2014
June 7 - 17
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
Galerie de Bellefeuille, 1367 avenue Greene, Montreal
http://debellefeuille.com
Beyond Realism Exhibition 2012
September 8 - October 2
Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
Galerie de Bellefeuille, 1367 avenue Greene, Montreal
http://debellefeuille.com