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Ola Billgren

(Sweden, 1940-2001)
Ola Billgren
(Sweden, 1940-2001)

OLA BILLGREN, oil on canvas, signed and dated -62.

42 x 66 cm.

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Ola Billgren föddes 1940 i Köpenhamn, men var verksam i Sverige, där han under 1960-talet och början av 1970-talet blev en av våra viktigaste och mest uppmärksammade konstnärer. Billgren var autodidakt och arbetade inom genrer som grafik, akvarell, collage, fotografi, film och scenografi. Han var också författare och en inflytelserik kulturskribent. Så småningom blev hans målningar ett mellanting mellan det abstrakta och det fotorealistiska, vilket resulterade i romantiska landskap, där han undersökte förhållandet mellan ljuset och färgen. Formerna löstes upp och färgerna reducerades till en monokrom, enfärgad yta, som var rikt bearbetad och varierad.
Auktionens fina, stämningsfulla och sparsmakade landskap från 1962 visar början på ett måleri som skulle utvecklas till att bli det som representerade fotorealismen bäst i de nordiska länderna, en stil som i andra länder utfördes av Gerhard Richter, Richard Estes, Malcom Morely och Chuck Close, i Sverige också av Ulf Wahlberg.
En stor retrospektiv med Billgrens verk visades på Rooseum i Malmö och på Moderna Museet i Stockholm 1991. Han tilldelades Sveriges Bildkonstnärers Stora Stipendium 1993.
Ola Billgren finns representerad på Musée National d'art Moderne Centre George Pompidou i Paris, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art i Danmark samt på museer för samtidskonst i Oslo, Lübeck och Reykjavik. I Sverige på plan annat Nationalmuseum och Moderna museet i Stockholm, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Kalmar museum, Helsingborgs konstmuseum, Malmö konstmuseum, Lunds universitets samlingar, Norrköpings konstmuseum samt Länsmuseet Gävleborg.

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Ola Billgren was born in 1940 in Copenhagen but based his career in Sweden. Billgren was self-taught, having only been trained by his parents Hans and Grete Billgren. Ola worked within the mediums of graphic art, watercolour, collage, photography, film, and scenography. He was also an author and culture critic. Known for his versatility, Billgren cultivated a relationship between art and reality in his work.
During the 1960s, he transitioned from abstract expressionism to photographic realism. Over time, his paintings evolved into a fusion of abstract and photorealistic styles, resulting in romantic landscapes where he examined the interplay of light and color. Forms dissolved, and colors were reduced to monochrome, single-colored surfaces that were richly worked and varied.
In the late 1980s, he returned to urban environments in large cityscapes, often painted from a high perspective but maintaining the impressionistic approach seen in his landscapes. Ola Billgren's influence on recent decades of art has been significant. His work is represented in institutions such as Musée National d'art Moderne Centre George Pompidou in Paris and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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