Pica-Pau is the alias of Norwegian painter Bård Kjøge Rønning. Pica-Pau paintings are found in art collections around the world, his visual language is textbased
neo-expressionistic, with references to Twombly, Basquiat, Schnabel, Tapies & Picabia.
Everything is language. Even what is not language, is language. Just like what we don´t consider to be nature, is nature. Working on my paintings, I enter a trance-like state and I work with all the languages that run through me. I try to decrypt and externalize the human experience in immediate visuals. In this process I create an entheogenic visual sphere which strives to be or become nothing but itself, a raw cacaphonic essence of all the different languages we interpret as reality and existence.
-Pica Pau
Pica-Pau's wildly vivid canvases present an intriguing puzzle, like something encountered by the slumbering brain—a world populated with totemic animals, misshapen figures, exclamations in multiple languages, overheated directions to partially glimpsed places, dates, and towns—everything interrelated, dictated by its own invisible structure of needs.
-Jessica Lott (Art Forum USA) (www.jessicalott.com) writes:
Current available paintings and artefacts.
Current Exhibitions
"Mastermind Series"
Mastermind,
Schweigaards gate 17, Oslo
acrylic, oilstick and ink on canvas
Past Exhibitions
2003 – Høstutstillingen, Oslo
2003 – Galleri Sporet, Oslo
2004 – Forårsudstillingen, København
2004 – Galleri Sporet, Oslo
2005 – Galleri Rasmus Olsen, København
2006 – Galleri Impasto, Oslo
2007 – Galleri Impasto, Oslo
2011 – Galleri Serna, Malaga
2012 – Galleri Thereses gate 5, Oslo
2013 – Galleri Frognerveien 44, Oslo
2017 – Urban Chaos, Lofoten
2018 – Galleri Causa, Oslo
2018 – Galleri T33, Oslo
2022– Hotel Scandic Vulkan
2022– KOBE 1-5
2022– Galleri Havna
Different book covers and illustrations for
numerous publishers in Norway. Painting installation for «De Urørlige»
Oslo Nye teater, 2018 Several large commisions of paintings through Galleri Impasto 2012 – 2014
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Torggata 33, 5th floor
0183 Oslo, Norway
bard.ronning@gmail.com
www.bardronning.com
