Fearless photography, commercial imagery, sharp sculptures, pop ideas, and raw street art, all make up the components of contemporary art. Contemporary Art Today brings you the international elite within these fields, represented by 25 individual artists.
Opera Gallery debuts in Oslo, taking along its invincible collection of contemporary art. Through collaboration with Katinka Traaseth of ArtWalk this Pop Up Show unveils a fresh and whimsical art world for a new audience.
Opera Gallery was founded in 1994, by Gilles Dyan, and offers collectors and art enthusiasts a diversity of art from all the corners of the globe. It being a prominent piece by Picasso, or a current creation by Mauro Corda, it will be present in one of the twelve, internationally spread, Opera galleries.
From Andy Warhol, the founding father of pop art, to the 27-year-old street artist, Vitaly Rusakov, Contemporary Art Today unites an A-team of contemporary artists. Their backgrounds as diverse as their mediums.
Robert Indiana has proclaimed himself an “American painter of signs”, as well as being immensely famous for his iconic rendering of the word LOVE. He has now brought this Love all the way from Times Square to Karl Johan.
Another artist of human emotions is Lita Cabellut. The expressive beings on her canvases are created through a modernized fresco-technique, and communicate sentiments from Mona Lisa-smiles to dubious curiosity.
Mr. Brainwash became a fast star on the street art sky. After filming a documentary about the greatest street artists there are he attempted the art form himself. Inspired, creative and dedicated he creates Warholesque pop portraits, and larger than life commercial sculptures. All done with a mischievous streak.
Graffiti Godfather, Seen, has literally made a distinct mark on the world. Not only has he decorated the Hollywood sign with his spray cans, he made sure that more walls were signed by him than by various billboard advertisers, in New York at one point. Luckily, he sometimes trades grungy brick walls for canvases.
From a crisp, modern bulldog to an androgynous person in a beautiful, gymnastic movement, Mauro Corda captures the power of every limb in his sculptures. Employing a great range of materials he portrays honest, sometimes harsh, always beautiful pieces.
Cubist, pop-artist, graffiti painter and sculptor, Romero Britto, brings colour and celebration into all of his creations. He makes art innocent and playful, to an almost blissfully naïve extent – mood elevators in tangible form.
Gerard Rancinan captures his vivid imagination through the camera lens. Dramatic accounts of global themes from consumerism to starvation play out before the viewer. His reports are inspired by legendary masterpieces, applying strong symbolism.
These are only a selection of the artists Contemporary Art Today invites you to witness. Welcome to the most novel show of contemporary art in Norway.
Text by Julia M. Ciarlo
