MYWORLD

The conquest of a new world
Written by Lene Ødegård Olsen, Daily Manager Galleri A

The multi-artist Myrvold presents her most recent oil paintings, digital prints, video installations on LCD screens and sculptures. The artist expresses herself both figuratively and non-figuratively in her oil paintings, always keeping her focus on palette, lines and depth. It is in these oil paintings that the artist lets herself play and find inspiration for new creations. The digital prints exist in both large and medium formats. The motives range from clean surfaces of deep, clear colours to photographs of people against computer generated and photo-based patterns. In the digital prints, Myrvold “freezes” the video surface within which she works, thus exploring the traditional painting. She tries to challenge our experience all whilst exploring our visual limitations: What happens within us when we observe something new and different? Will the observer pull away or plunge herself in a creative universe where old rules no longer guide us towards a fixed idea? What happens when our frames of reference cease to exist? 

The people photographed in Myrvold’s graphics find themselves in a calculated chaos of colours, lines, patterns and shadows. Nevertheless the digital prints convey a meditative calmness where bodies float in a mass that evokes a fantasy world, a dream. Perhaps it is an expression of humanity’s inner voyage towards the future, which brings us back to the essence of Myrvold’s art: innovation. The naked people photographed portray vulnerability, but it is within this vulnerability that we find our strength; we will know no boundaries if we continue to transcend, continue to reach and stretch beyond our own borders. 

It is Myrvold’s use of colours that is characteristic of her art, notably within her visual art. This points us in the direction of one of the artist’s great inspirations: the German-American Hans Holfman and his abstract, expressionist paintings in which he developed the push pull technique. Using this technique, the observer will perceive the colours on the same image surface to be at different distances. Juxtaposing specific colours creates the depth in the image surface. 

Myrvold is visionary thinker, and she combines this visionariness with the art’s creative power. As an artist she is determined and intuitive. She moves forward with an avant-garde energy and will. Constantly advancing, constantly improving and always innovating. From this an interdisciplinary enterprise has emerged, including amongst other projects the hybrid interactive design projecthttp://cybercouture.com. Furthermore: Oil paintings, aquarelles, sound and video installations and sculptures. Her art effaces all boundaries and it innovates. She is an autodidact and describes herself as a denier of academia. Multidisciplinary creations help her evolve and find new and interesting paths and expressions within her many genres. 
The multi-artist has had success both in Norway and abroad. At the time being she is Paris-based, and presented in 2005 her interactive “new media” piece “Female Interfaces “ at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. 

In addition to exhibiting at Galleri A, Pia Myrvold’s video installations will be presented at Oslo Central Station as part of a project entitled Room for Art, initiated by ROM Eiendom AS. Her video installation “Streaming” stretches over three screens. Myrvold’s ambition is that each second in her video can be “frozen” and in that form a complete composition. Her thought is that in the future, one will no longer experience static image surfaces; the audience’s interactivity will have an impact on the work of art.