Therese Nortvedt - exhibitions


E X H I B I T I O N S Around the world with Ibsen The 2006 Ibsen Year marks the fact that 100 years have passed since Henrik Ibsen died. Therese Nortvedt is one of six artists who have made her impressions of Ibsen with oil paintings and lithographs based on A Doll's House, written in Italy in 1879. Nortvedt bases her illustrations on a close reading of the play. Future Players Pollock Fine Art hosts the first UK exhibition of new paintings by Therese Nortvedt from November 27th – December 18th. Her paintings of celebrity’s children are sourced from a variety of media. They seemingly suggest a hybrid pop art, but the artist has surpassed that clever mission by evoking an unforced strangeness masquerading as the familiar. Iconography in art is like irony The Norwegian figurative artist Therese Nortvedt is focusing specifically on contemporary celebrity offspring, she exploits the viewer’s familiarity and ready identification with the children in question, and thus draws us in, writes Dan Cairns, who writes for The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard in London. Read more. More news and pictures Therese Nortvedt will soon be back with more news and new pictures within short time. The Urban Jungle New Exhibition from 13 January in Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway
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E X H I B I T I O N S

Around the world with Ibsen
The 2006 Ibsen Year marks the fact that 100 years have passed since Henrik Ibsen died. Therese Nortvedt is one of six artists who have made her impressions of Ibsen with oil paintings and lithographs based on A Doll's House, written in Italy in 1879. Nortvedt bases her illustrations on a close reading of the play.

Future Players
Pollock Fine Art hosts the first UK exhibition of new paintings by Therese Nortvedt from November 27th – December 18th. Her paintings of celebrity’s children are sourced from a variety of media. They seemingly suggest a hybrid pop art, but the artist has surpassed that clever mission by evoking an unforced strangeness masquerading as the familiar.

Iconography in art is like irony
The Norwegian figurative artist Therese Nortvedt is focusing specifically on contemporary celebrity offspring, she exploits the viewer’s familiarity and ready identification with the children in question, and thus draws us in, writes Dan Cairns, who writes for The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard in London. Read more.

More news and pictures
Therese Nortvedt will soon be back with more news and new pictures within short time.

The Urban Jungle
New Exhibition from 13 January in Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway