Frans Widerberg, Messenger, 2000 (Detail) - © the artist
Frans Widerberg, Messenger, 2000 (Detail) - © the artist
Frans Widerberg, Messenger, 2000 (Detail) - © the artist
Frans Widerberg, Messenger, 2000 (Detail) - © the artist
22 May - 17 July 09
In a review of Frans Widerberg’s last exhibition of lithographs in London in 1985, Guy Burn wrote that Widerberg was “… a follower of Munch insofar as his theme is the raw drama of the human condition … “ but “… like Blake he is a mythmaker, a true theatrical visionary.”
Certain themes continue to preoccupy him; the horse and rider, elongated, suspended figures, loving couples; the elements, earth, fire, water and air, which evoke symbolic associations with the human condition rather than any literal references. Colour, too, is often reduced to saturated, blazing primaries. “Light is colour, and for me colour has more concrete characteristics than form.” he said, “Yellows, red, blue, matter, energy, space – each in itself with absolute characteristics as objects. Together they resound, vibrate, bring about transformations and life.”
