Tor Arne: Near and Far

While physical perception, the landscape, experiences, always underlie Tor Arne’s paintings, the works are not figurative. They represent only themselves.

“The light of those summer nights… I thought there must be some way to capture this feeling in a painting. And sunrise, and the moment just before sunrise, the light coming into being. This is what joins us to all this, to all existence.” (Tor Arne, 2004)

Tor Arne, the Artist of artists, the Painter of painters, turns 90 on 16 March. Galerie Anhava is delighted and honoured to celebrate the occasion with an exhibition of his works.

This exhibition, which is light as a puff of cloud on a sunny day, is composed mostly of oil pastels on paper, complemented with a careful selection of earlier oil paintings. The small-scale paintings are painted, scraped, and grated in the artist’s characteristic style in order to achieve just the right kind of breathing. This time, the paintings are made on gessoed paper, and the work and the base coalesce into a carefully measured and elegant end result.

Galerie Anhava

7.-31.3.2024

Tue-Fri 11.00–17.00

Sat-Sun 12.00–16.00

Free entry