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Oil on canvas, waxed oak frame

205 x 165 cm
Unique

Lars Morell (b. 1980, NO) is educated at the Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts.

Over the past few years, Lars Morell has created a complex and diverse body of work consisting of photographs, sculptures, and installations. Morell’s work has always encompassed and questioned the visible/invisible and what seems to be something that it is not. In numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally this iconography has been thoroughly developed, and in his recent works distorted shapes, which now “grow” over the canvas, are constructed from imagery in his previous works – paintings, sculptures and drawings. We see colored constructs that at first glance are reminiscent of branching root systems; we recognize the outlines of chains and hooks – and thus again objects that are used in illusion and deception. Morell develops these works out of figuration and sees them as distorted still lives, as a dilemma between abstraction and representational painting.

Morells works is in numerous private collections as well as the Malmö Art Museum, Sørlandet Art Museum, Equinor Art Programme, KLP and the Hoff Collection.

(solo) upcoming, QB Gallery, Oslo (NO)
2025
Enter Art Fair (group) upcoming, Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, DK
2024
Whispers in the breeze, seeking shade (group), PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2024
Aesthetic Echoes (group), PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2024
Tickling fingers, infinite view (solo), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
2024
Enter Art Fair 2023 (group), Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, DK
2023
2022
Enter Art Fair (duo), Tunnelfabrikken, Copenhagen, DK
2020
Curse, Effect (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2020
Tåkeleser (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2018
Fog reader (solo), Cinnamon, Rotterdam, NE
2018
Frames and Seconds (solo), Stephane Simoens, Knokke, BEL
2017
Mørkets Muligheter (solo), BGE Contemporary, Stavanger, NO
2017
Recent Works (solo), Galleri KANT, Copenhagen, DK
2015
Kristiansand Kunsthall (solo), Kristiansand, NO
2015
El Hotel Eléctrico – Rooms available (solo), MuHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BEL
2014
Porta’s Description (solo), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2013
Silent Codes (solo), Choi & Lager, Cologne, DE
2013
Hotel Paris, Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris, FR
2012

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