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THIN SURFACE, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS,
INTERFERENCE COLOR, ALUMINIUM, SMOKED SILVER 59X39.3 IN. | 150X100 CM.
INVITED ARTIST DANCE, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, ALUMINIUM 59X39.3 IN. | 150X100 CM.
GRO FOLKAN
Lives and works in Tromsoe and Oslo, Norway
https://www.grofolkan.no/
Gro Folkan was born in 1949 in Oslo, Norway and she lives Norway, Art collections, national universities, institutions,
between Oslo and Tromsoe. She studied Art at the National and national offices. The theme of her recent exhibitions is
Art Academy in Oslo. She has had 30 solo exhibitions of her ’Female Rune’. ’’My pictures are instruments, like runes, used
paintings in leading galleries in Norway and abroad and has for thousand of years by Northern peoples to invoke hidden
also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions, Her works aspects of reality. The real pictures, the images are not the
have been purchased by the Norwegian National Gallery, the lines and colors on my canvases, but the images coming into
Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, the National Bank of being in the mind of the onlooker’.
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