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Galleri Lofoten has one of Norway’s largest art collections of North Norwegian paintings from the period around the turn of the last century – a period that is called by many the golden age of North Norwegian painting.
On the gallery’s ground floor you will find a rich collection of paintings by renowned artists such as Otto Sinding, Gunnar Berg, Even Ulving, Adelsteen Normann, Einar Berger, Ole Juul, Thorolf Holmboe and others.
The gallery’s second floor is divided into several sections and houses several exhibitions by a number of great artists. The exhibition on this floor is changed at one- to two-year intervals.
For over 40 years as a painter and graphic artist, Frans Widerberg has held a distinctive and unique position in Norwegian contemporary art.
The primary colors red, yellow and blue, as well as green, horsemen, hovercraft, winged and long figures in timeless landscapes with no specific location. The light, the energy, the movement and the mood. Rooms filled with the light of dreams. This is how most people know him.
The base is the central human themes, who are we, where do we come from and where do we go, but to a large extent interpersonal relationships, life itself.
Through exhibitions and public commissions, Nico Widerberg has reached a large audience, and he is today considered one of the most significant sculptors of our time. He works mainly with sculptures in stone, bronze and glass, but also with graphics and painting.
– I want to freeze experiences and give life to what is dead – put a new soul into the material. I believe there is a force outside of myself that I can pass on to art. It is reinforced by the fact that I seek and am in motion.
The human being as a form and figure has endless possibilities.
Thomas Widerberg is a trained composer and musician, but works primarily as a photographer.
As an art photographer, he is concerned with thematizing silence and loneliness, not the negative loneliness, but the positive self-chosen. Motifs often depict desolate mountains and landscapes, often inspired by space.
The photographs are printed with an inkjet printer on the same paper used by Munch, among others. He processes the photographs with oil paint varnish and car paint to bring out the right effects.
Lars Lerin was born in Munkfors in Värmland in Sweden and currently lives on Hammarø outside Karlstad. Lars Lerin has lived in Lofoten for several years and belongs to the top tier of the world’s watercolour painters. He is known for his unique technique and has developed his own way of applying colors. Grey, blue and ochre dominate in changing shades, and nature is central to his art. He himself says that: “Actually, it is the light that is my motive”.
Opdahl works as a painter and graphic artist. It is nature and the landscape that are central to his artistry. Ørnulf Opdahl’s art reflects a mixture of concrete experiences and abstract impressions that run together in his quest to capture the changing atmospheres of the landscape in a universally accessible form. Recurring motifs are the lonely hiker, steep mountainsides, the meeting between sea and sky, light and darkness, the wide view. The landscape is a central recurring theme.
Despite different phases and motifs, his interpretations of the nature of Western Norway have contributed to renewing the Norwegian landscape painting tradition.
On the third floor you will find a museum exhibition about northern Norwegian coastal culture. It depicts life and fishing in Henningsvær at the beginning of the last century.
