Bjorn Ransve - Paintings: Catalogue Raisonne 1964-2009 (2010)

Bjorn Ransve - PaintingsCatalogue Raisonne 1964-2009\nAuthor(s): Rita Selvaggio\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: Latin\nPublisher: Arnoldsche, Germany\nImprint: Arnoldsche\nISBN-13: 9783897903104, 978-3897903104\nSynopsis\nBjA rn Ransve (b. in 1944) is one of the most important contemporary Norwegian artists. Since the onset of late Modernism, he has played a crucial role in shaping painting in Scandinavia and today his works are represented in all important museums there. In the rest of Europe and the US, he is regarded as an insider tip for collectors. A particularly striking aspect of Ransve's work is the constant shift between the representational and abstraction - often in parallel. In addition, he is a consummate master of traditional oil-painting techniques - working the medium in anything from small formats to canvases 15 metres across. His 1960s fragmented bodies, his searching studies of animal cadavers, the motifs he has borrowed from the history of art and his enigmatically d.