SCULPTURES – JAN GROTH
An exhibition of sculptures by Norwegian artist Jan Groth has opened at the Pori Art Museum, continuing from his 1989 exhibition of tapestries and drawings. This new exhibition, featuring eight sculptures, highlights the latest phase in Groth’s artistic career.
Groth’s sculptures are closely tied to his broader body of work. He began as a painter but gained international recognition for his monumental tapestries, crafted with traditional techniques, emphasizing simplicity and reduction. Alongside these, his delicate, swiftly created drawings have consistently complemented and expanded the understanding of his themes and serial approach to art.
The sculptures on display represent a similar distillation of expression—abstract, concrete “signs” that are memorably present. They explore the relationship between monumentality and intimacy, clarity and poetry, more distinctly now as pure abstractions. Cast in bronze, these works push the boundaries of space with their form.
Born in Stavanger, Norway, in 1938, Jan Groth divides his time between Norway, Copenhagen, and New York, where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
This intimate exhibition of Groth’s sculptures is a collaboration between the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg. The project has received support from Norway’s Ministry of Culture.
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