Arnvid Aakre

From international artprojects, one-man shows, group exhibitions and as a curator for a artist led gallery - I moved away from the western art scene. Lived in a country with five thousand years of art history, and with contemporary egyptian artists for nearly fourteen years. Today my art is less an reaction, and more an interaction.
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My first exhibitions was very much part "the New Wild", an art expression today often defined as neo-expressionism. Still, I was part of performance art projects, and an art critic once said that I "use figuartion as an excuse to paint abstract" - and yes, that's pretty true as well.
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Apart from working in the wave of "Heftiges Maleri", performance as curating, I have never used photo in my artworks, but included photographers in my art projects. My take on photography has been from documenting polaroid photos with their frames on canvas, to the painted serial "unsuccessful family photos". After this serial I did a number of paintings (on canvas) where one of the main focus was to cut a motive so much that the viewer had to imagine what was outside the frame.
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Most of my time the last t...

Although art schools, I only include two artists having the effect as true guides. One was the great norwegian painter Lars Tiller, who studied under Fernand Léger in Paris. Lars showed me how blue could be close and red far away. In other words, he learned me to both think for myself, and paint for myself. The other person I have a great thankfulness towards, is the great polish born artist Ryszard Warsinski. Apart from believing in me in an early stage, he was also the one who advised me to ban black pigments, as black always had to be mixed from the three basic colours. I still build upon.these two artists, with deep respect and gratitude.

Many solo- and group-exhibitions from 1984 to 1990. From that time, and ongoing - I say 'no thank you' when asked to exhibit in standard galleries. It's not about being arrogant, but that part of the art world just don't fit me or my work any longer. Other artists love to exhibit in galleries, and many gallerists truly love art and care very much for the artists. But there is no problem - you found my work here online at Saatchi Art? You can also contact me through my site arnvidaakre.com & who knows, one day I maybe end my exhibition celibacy. But don't wait for that to happen, I'm here, and my works are more real than ever (-: