Are Blytt

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Images Galleri K, Oslo 2022 Galerie Alber, Cologne 2021 Galleri K, Oslo 2020 WIELS, Brussels 2019 Galerie Alber, Cologne 2019 MLF Gallery, Brussels 2019 Avenue x Are Blytt 2019 Galleri K, Oslo 2017

Are Blytt, installation view, 2018

Are Blytt, "Either / Or", 2018, acrylic paint on Belgian linen canvas, 210 x 240 cm / 83 x 94 inches

Are Blytt, detail, "Either / Or", 2018

Are Blytt, "Close to the River" & "The Benefits of Bankruptcy", 2018, acrylic paint on Belgian linen canvas, 220 x 214 cm each / 87 x 84 inches each

Are Blytt, installation view, 2018

Are Blytt, "Untitled (Hands)", 2018, oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen canvas, archival-print, aluminum stretcher, 200 x 100 cm / 79 x 39 inches

Are Blytt, detail, "Untitled (Figure)", 2018

Are Blytt, "Untitled (Figure)", 2018, oil and acrylic paint on Belgian linen canvas, archival-print, aluminum stretcher, 200 x 100 cm / 79 x 39 inches

Are Blytt, "Euro #1", 2013, oil, acrylic and paper on Belgian linen canvas, wooden stretcher, 185 x 120 cm / 71 x 47 inches

Are Blytt, "Euro #2", 2013, oil, acrylic and paper on Belgian linen canvas, wooden stretcher, 185 x 120 cm / 71 x 47 inches

Are Blytt, "Poem", 2012, oil on cotton canvas, wooden stretcher, diptych, 240 x 335 cm / 94 x 132 inches

Are Blytt, "ashes #2", 2014, oil and acrylic on Belgian linen canvas, wooden stretcher, 200 x 145 cm / 79 x 57 inches

Are Blytt, "ashes #4", 2014, oil and acrylic on Belgian linen canvas, wooden stretcher, 200 x 145 cm / 79 x 57 inches

Are Blytt, "ashes #5", 2014, oil and acrylic on Belgian linen canvas, wooden stretcher, 200 x 145 cm / 79 x 57 inches

Are Blytt, installation view KOBE Biennale, Japan, 2011

Are Blytt

1981 born in Bergen, Norway

Lives in Oslo, Norway

Abstract painters don’t really need reality, but in our current times, it is hard to ignore the world, even if you remove yourself as far from it as possible. Blytt’s new paintings look like posters, or book covers, so that when you seem them first—on a screen, in most cases—they don’t seem to be what they are. Is abstract painting becoming self-conscious? It just might be.

Part of Blytt’s latest exhibition, titled simply "Eight Paintings", at iconic Norwegian arts institute Galleri K, Oslo, Blytt pushes abstraction towards a new understanding, considering the sublimation of surfaces in the current age, and how those surfaces contain and distort meaning.

Text: Charlotte Jansen / Elephant Magazine

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