Olle Borg
Olle Borg, signed and dated 2007 on verso. Oil and enamel on canvas (mounted on board).
"this is not what I meant (red)". 210 x 150.2 cm.
Provenance
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm.
Tom Böttiger Collection, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, "Olle Borg", 10 January – 10 February, 2008.
More information
Mönstren i Olle Borgs tavlor är baserade på komplexa talserier och har byggts upp i lager på lager av färg. Färgerna efterliknar Humbrols färgskala, som är mest känd för att ha tillverkat färg för byggmodeller, ofta med anknytning till militär utrustning. Färgerna är ett slags readymade-kulörer avsedda att representera reella färger på de föremål som modellerna imiterade. Borg arbetar med en form av materialiserade bildrum, stora, glansiga ytor i vilka färgen sjunkit in och skapat en suggestivitet. Färgskalan är i grunden tämligen distinkt, men har under bildernas långa tillkomstprocess gradvis blivit flytande, på gränsen till det kameleontiska.
Artist
Olle Borg, a Swedish painter, received his education at Åke Pernby's painting school from 1982 to 1983 and then continued at the Royal Institute of Art (Konstakademin) from 1983 to 1988. The patterns in his paintings are based on complex number series and are built up in layers of color. His color palette is derived from Humbrol's range of colors. Humbrol is renowned for manufacturing paints for scale models, often associated with military equipment. These colors are a type of ready-made hues intended to represent real colors on the objects that the models imitate.
Borg works with a form of materialized pictorial space, featuring large, glossy surfaces where the paint has sunk in, creating a suggestive darkness. Initially, the color palette is quite distinct, but over the long process of creating his paintings, it gradually becomes fluid, bordering on the chameleon-like. His artistic approach thus combines mathematical rigor with an exploration of color's transformative potential within the context of structured surfaces.
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