Summer Exhibition 2010
Rannva Kunoy
Her name was writ large and deep into Faroese art history at a ground-breaking solo exhibition held in The Faroe Islands National Art Museum in Tórshavn in 1999. The exhibition revealed a fresh and young Rannva Kunoy breaking away from a venerable Faroese art tradition. Her work was ground-breaking not only in terms of her artistic expression, but also her visual perspective. Although her paintings in that historic solo exhibition contain elements of scientific naturalism in that the subject matter depicts blood and bones, in their artistic execution, however, her paintings explore the nature of transparency, abstraction and the limits of the picture surface. This is still the case with her new work.
The new paintings of Rannva Kunoy are constructed of many thin layers of paint, which create a transparent form, evoking a sense of intangible smoke or clouds in the viewer’s imagination, even though the paintings are essentially non-figurative. The artist actively embraces the work of other artists in her own work. She openly copies, distorts, and paints over. The end result is that her paintings contain ephemeral “quotes” from the world of art history, which again stimulate and play with the imagination of the viewer.
The exhibition opens 4 June 2010 and runs until the end of August 2010. The Faroese and English exhibition catalogue contains a collection of prints of Rannva Kunoy’s work. Gunnar Hoydal, Kinna Poulsen, Pernilla Holmes and Tom Morten contributed to the commentary in the catalogue. Translation provided by Michael Paul Reveal.
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