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AWAKENING, 2019, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, METAL DUST, PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE, INTERFERENCE COLOR,
OXIDIZED SILVER AND BRASS, GOLD 59X43.3 IN | 150X110 CM.
ART AND ARTISTS COLOR 62.9X47.2 IN. | 160X120 CM.
FREYA, 2019, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, ALUMINUM, COPPER, OXIDIZED BRASS AND COPPER ,INTERFERENCE
TALKING WITH EARTH, 2017 ACRYLIC, ALUMINUM, COPPER 59X39.3 IN |150X100 CM.

GRO FOLKAN
Lives and works in Tromsoe and Oslo, Norway
https://www.grofolkan.no

There is not so much about imagination as listening. One eye and flower and the butterfly, we suddenly get access to a part of reality
ear inwards and one eye and ear outwards. I think of my pictures as we did not know before. I have experienced that when I manage to
gates, entrances to this language in between.The space between be in these gates, a new state of mind arise, a new contact, because
Thoughts. Many of us remember the famous Haiku poem about I also am nature. My pictures are gates, instruments. The real
the flower falling from a branch of a tree, and suddenly rising again pictures, the images are not the pictures on my canvases, but the
upwards. Is it a butterfly? Pulled into the moment between the images coming into being in the mind of the onlooker.

Keeping these remarkable words in mind, it becomes clear sensations in such a way so that they, in Roger Fry’s words
that the aesthetic dimension in the Folkan’s work incorporates ”arouse in us deep emotions, through which this feeling of a
a certain amount of figural and abstract expressionism. The special tie with the man who expressed them becomes very
artist’s moving paintings fulfill one of the most important strong.” (Excerpt)
functions of the artististic experience, namely to arrange John Austin is an art writer living and working in Manhattan.

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