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This is her first exhibition in Wales at gallery Off the Wall.
She will be available to talk to you about her work. Contact art@galleryoffthewall.com if you wish to attend.
Jorunn Monrad was born in Norway in 1961. She graduated in sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy of Milan (Brera) in 1987. She lives and works in Milan.
Using techniques developed in the middle ages she uses egg and casein tempera to create brilliantly coloured and endlessly fascinating abstract paintings featuring hundreds of tiny proto-animals inspired by Nordic myths. Her sophisticated use of colour contrasts reveals or obscures messages in the paint.
Jorunn says, "“My works are rooted in an imagery from my childhood:
the snakes of the wooden sculptures of Viking and medieval Norwegian art, the forms that were created by nature, like branches, clouds, forms of branches. The fables, the mysterious nature has also played a part. I have also done research on phenomena that are triggered by the imagery, one may say biological, on which precisely the visions of forms that repeat themselves during falling asleep and waking up can create this kind of visual effects. From this I have obtained a kind of module, that is a kind of biomorphic form, rather than one specific animal or other, that is merely the building brick of the structure, but that is multiplied in forms that are vertiginous and sometimes perhaps unsettling. The idea is to create a dreamy, moving atmosphere, that is nevertheless very different from the effects of op art, in short a less clashing, more “natural” effect."
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