The first solo exhibition with Bjarne Melgaard at Galleri Branstrup. The exhibition  “Regionalt norsk maleri, Nanna og Frigg microdoserer og en ny roman,” will consist exclusively of paintings.

Bjarne Melgaard (1967, Sidney, Australia) attended the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, before moving on to The Netherlands to complete his studies at the the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, and then afterwards at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. 

His works belong in a long tradition of expressionism, which can be traced back to Melgaard´s spiritual mentor, Edward Munch. The expressionist movement broke with the existing artistic conventions with its illustrations of inner tensions and conflicts, instead of solely conveying outer realities. Melgaard first appeared on the Norwegian art scene in the mid 1990s during the uprising of the neo-conceptualism. Chaotic and expressionistic paintings, sculptures and installations floating between fiction and reality, filled with fearsome lust dominated the art scene. He drew inspiration from Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut, with art created by outsiders of the art scene, such as children and the mentally ill. It was at this time he developed his characteristic artistic expression, where every brush stroke is applied with feeling and sensuality, which occasionally can nearly result in abstraction.

Regionalt norsk maleri, Nanna og Frigg microdoserer og en ny roman

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