Dag Hol, ZOJA Sperstad and Munch Malo from Norway exhibit their own works of art in Venice at the Gallery at Loreta Larkina in ART Studio Loreta Larkina on 25 March 2019.
March 25, 2019 in Gallery Art Studio Loreta Larkina, Dorsoduro 2799, Venice.
The “Labyrinth” exhibition in Venice is over. The exhibition aims to bring out and give a voice to contemporary talents who have a different artistic background, but who in this space and in the unique setting that offers the city of Venice find ways to confront and talk about themselves.
We find 55 works by 25 emerging Italian artists and 4 artists Dag Hol, Zoja Sperstad, Shian Yuan Yachi and Munch Malo from Norway. A heterogeneous for origin, formation and expressive methodology, but linked by the same creative energy that places them within the fertile panorama of contemporary art. Some of them have early embraced the passion for art, others have come later, moved by an internal desire that led them here after having followed a course of study and life that is foreign to this context. It is clearly denoted by the technical experimentation and the diversity of languages that the thread that links them is the need to communicate, the desire to talk about oneself and tell often made explicit by figurative language.
Dag Hol is a Norwegian figurative painter and graphic artist. He graduated from the National Academy of Art from 1980 to 1984 and was a student of Gunnar Dietrichson and Odd Nerdrum.
His works are influenced by ancient paintings, from the Renaissance period to romanticism. He also studied classical Indian, Japanese and Chinese art and philosophy. He has held numerous philosophical art conferences in Norway, the United States, India and Taiwan. entitled The Art of Doing, where he deals with the craft itself as a signature and the essence of what art is. That is through the way in which art is created that determines the spiritual energy and the power of artistic expression, this in contrast with the contemporary preoccupation with conceptual and conceptual as the core of art.
Zoja Sperstad played a central role in the cultural life of the volunteers. Both as a performing artist and researcher and through a tireless commitment as an active participant in cultural life organizations in Drammen and Buskerud. His art has solid roots in the Russian and Norwegian tradition, but not only. In addition to his education from the North University in Norway, he studied at the Erasmus School in Brussels. His artistic language is characterized by a series of study trips to different parts of the world. The images of Zoja Sperstad are characterized by a good and warm fabric which, together with refined colors and highly developed pictorial techniques, gives the most beautiful artistic expressions. He received numerous awards and his paintings were bought in Norway and Russia. On February 24, 2019, Zoja Sperstad held a large solo show “The Joy of Thanksgiving” in the church of Bragernes with good visits as in separate exhibitions at the Drammen Library and Union Scene in Drammen.
Munch Malo was brought to Kashmir in 1974. Yan was nine months old when he and his family traveled the old silk road to Europe in a Wolkswagen Van. Eventually they ended up in Norway, and on Tøyen in Oslo. Growing up in the East of Oslo has been characterized by many changes, both in the family and in the living environment. At twenty-five, Malo was given the opportunity to study Graphic Design, and was later admitted to the National Academy of Art in Oslo.
Shian Yuan Yachi graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts. After that, he worked and researched continuously as an oriental calligraphic ink painter for more than 10 years. His works have been collected by the Taiwan Art Bank, an institution sponsored by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and by several private institutions. As a professional artist, Shian Yuan Yachi has participated in works such as AArt-Citizen Art Shanghai, Asia Contemporary Art Show, Singapore Contemporary Art Show, Chinese Contemporary Ink – Hong Kong Christie’s and several other exhibitions in East Asia over the years. Before coming to Norway, she was also a professor at Tainan National University of the Arts and a writer of art magazines.
Ink painting on rice paper has a long history that can be traced back to the tenth century in China, a period in which it was slightly earlier than at the beginning of the Song Dynasty (962-1276 AD). This tradition has spread to East Asia. It is strongly connected to metaphysical lines and brushstrokes of ink as the core of aesthetic value. As a contemporary ink painter, Shian Yuan Yachi turns to explore the theme of his pictorial tradition. He openly practices different techniques using most of the water-based pigment, both classic and modern. His works have been painted on both sides because the rice paper is thin enough to show part of the strokes based on the speed and strength of the hand with the density of ink and color. They are colors between…