Photographs manipulated with charcoal and pastel
"In many cultures around the world, domestic abuse is rarely spoken of, let alone written about. But, for Norwegian artist Reinhardt Sobye, it has become the subject of his art recently"
"Whoever views the work of the contemporary Norwegian painter Reinhardt Sobye must be prepared to feel uncomfortable. Perfectly ordinary portraits though they seem at first sight, they show no trace of idealization. The expressions of their subjects, rather, exude a sense of suffering, loneliness, and resignation; even their seemingly mild gaze harbors a troubling light that transfixes the viewer.
Born in Oslo in 1956, the artist has held annual one-man exhibitions in Japan for the pas t five years. The present exhibition is a retrospective placing on show 57 works painted between 1992 and last year. The gloomy, unsettling images may recall the painter's compatriot Munch, but lack the burning sense of life peculiar to the latter. The gaze that Sobye turns on humanity is dryly dispassionate."
"...Reinhardt Sobye has found a way to peel back the innocence of childhood and reveal the deepest of emotions,ones we all have felt in one way or another in our young lives, feelings of loneliness, loss and despair."
"n the series of new works, Søbye paints the devastation creeping into poetic landscapes. There is restlessness in the bottom of the space, which lets you foresee that something strange may happen. Children are there unguarded. Where do the lights lead us? The pictures are full of strange lights. It is different from the light shining into the picture. It seems that the picture is a luminant itself. He also portrays more cruel devastation caused by human beings. Søbye focuses on the future of humanity. He cares about others and neighbours. He used to paint in gouache or draw with crayons. Recently he processes various parts of the pictures with a computer, adds images by hand and creates more flexible images. "
"In both style and subject matter Reinhardt Sobye is, it seems to me, far removed from contemporary taste.
The mainstreams of painting today lie in the abstract, the fanciful and the expressionistic. Sobye, on the other hand, sticks firmly to traditional realism, The contemporary art world, moreover, is interested primarily in embodying concepts that nobody ever thought of embodying before, whereas almost all Sobye's work falls within the field of portrait painting, which has has been around for centuries already."
"In many cultures around the world, domestic abuse is rarely spoken of, let alone written about. But, for Norwegian artist Reinhardt Sobye, it has become the subject of his art recently"
"Whoever views the work of the contemporary Norwegian painter Reinhardt Sobye must be prepared to feel uncomfortable. Perfectly ordinary portraits though they seem at first sight, they show no trace of idealization. The expressions of their subjects, rather, exude a sense of suffering, loneliness, and resignation; even their seemingly mild gaze harbors a troubling light that transfixes the viewer.
Born in Oslo in 1956, the artist has held annual one-man exhibitions in Japan for the pas t five years. The present exhibition is a retrospective placing on show 57 works painted between 1992 and last year. The gloomy, unsettling images may recall the painter's compatriot Munch, but lack the burning sense of life peculiar to the latter. The gaze that Sobye turns on humanity is dryly dispassionate."
"...Reinhardt Sobye has found a way to peel back the innocence of childhood and reveal the deepest of emotions,ones we all have felt in one way or another in our young lives, feelings of loneliness, loss and despair."
"n the series of new works, Søbye paints the devastation creeping into poetic landscapes. There is restlessness in the bottom of the space, which lets you foresee that something strange may happen. Children are there unguarded. Where do the lights lead us? The pictures are full of strange lights. It is different from the light shining into the picture. It seems that the picture is a luminant itself. He also portrays more cruel devastation caused by human beings. Søbye focuses on the future of humanity. He cares about others and neighbours. He used to paint in gouache or draw with crayons. Recently he processes various parts of the pictures with a computer, adds images by hand and creates more flexible images. "
"In both style and subject matter Reinhardt Sobye is, it seems to me, far removed from contemporary taste.
The mainstreams of painting today lie in the abstract, the fanciful and the expressionistic. Sobye, on the other hand, sticks firmly to traditional realism, The contemporary art world, moreover, is interested primarily in embodying concepts that nobody ever thought of embodying before, whereas almost all Sobye's work falls within the field of portrait painting, which has has been around for centuries already."
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