Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

The artist?s drawings are usually produced spontaneously, with a sense of urgency and almost feverishness that results in a comedic cosmos of bizarre figures and creatures. The drawings are made without corrections, their only filter being a fluid movement from eye to mind to hand to paper. They represent a mixture of automatic writing and streams of consciousness, where visual moments are arrested and fused with fragments of language. In 2009/2010 the artist started to transfer his drawings ? non-linear narratives just like his serial works ? into film with Hunter Hare Dog. Similarly, his most recent film ? Around the House or in the Bar, at least ? makes reference to Georg Pencz?s print work, The Hunter Caught by the Hares (1534-35). The second animaton also references Norwegian fairy tales. It takes up the comical-abysmal story of the hunter and his dogs, but makes it even more brutal. (In the exhibition) the film is accompanied by three drawings: blown-In fine quill and black ink, the graphic lines of the drawings are transferred into a larger format by way of a patient, point by point reconstruction that can almost be understood as an analysis of the artist?s own drawing process.

Per Dybvig is a widely recognized graphic artist, with a range of publications, illustrations, books,awards and numerous exhibitions behind him -among them the Lillehammer Art Museum and The Stenersen Museum, both in Oslo, Norway. His works are in several public collections; the National Gallery in Oslo, the Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts in Stavanger, Arts Council Norway and Wien Museum, Austria. In 2008, Per Dybvig showed drawings at Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York. In 2010 and 2011, Dybvig`s animation «Hunter Hare Dog» was part of the Art Film program at ART I 42 I BASEL and Recontres International - Paris/Berlin/Madrid. In 2010, the artist took part in The Drawing Biennale, Moss and presented recent work in solo-shows at Galerie Opdahl Berlin, ?Around the House or in the Bar, at least? and the exhibition ?Hunter Hare Dog? at Christine König Gallery in Vienna in January 2011. Dybvig`s works were featured at several art fairs in 2011, such as; Art I 42 I Basel, ARCO Madrid, Viennafair (Christine König Galerie) , Market Art Fair,Stockholm and Artissima, Torino, (Galerie Opdahl).