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Rare catalogue from the artist's first solo exhibition. Good condition with a corner bump, cover with heavy traces of dirt, paint in violet and blue and water; unclear if that is an artistic comment or an aesthetic accident. / Catalogue with a text by Anders Eiebakke. / Sverre Andreas Koren Bjertnæs (born 1976) is a Norwegian painter and graphic artist. He had his first solo exhibition in 2000 at Bjarne Melgaard's Norsk Anarkistisk Fraksjon gallery. His early works (1997-2004) are characterised by large, sober and objective portraits of young people, including the children of his partner Unni Askeland. From the exhibition ?Incognito? (2004) onwards, he abandoned the ?youthful innocence that characterised his early pictures? and moved into a darker world of motifs in which one theme was intoxication and other effects were ?the use of black light and interior depictions of public toilets?. As a teenager in Trondheim, he studied with Tore Bjørn Skjølsvik (1989-93), then spent a year with Odd Nerdrum (1993-94) before attending the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (1995-99) and two years at the ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten in Enschede(Netherlands). He received the Blix Scholarship in 1999, the Anders Jahr Prize for Young Artists in 2005 and the first scholarship from the newly founded Håkon Bleken Foundation in 2008. Bjertnæs began an artistic collaboration with Bjarne Melgaard, which lasted several years and led to exhibitions in Norway and abroad.In 2019 he received a 10-year grant for established artists from the Norwegian Arts Council. (wiki)