Arne Ingvaldsen
Visual artist I Norway
I made my studies at the art academies of Warsaw and Bergen. Before that I graduated as an
architect from NTNU in Trondheim. Now I concentrate on working with art. I have done a number of
solo exhibitions, taken part in group exhibitions and public art competitions - most in Norway.
My principal interests are installations, sculpture, drawing and painting.
Installations have been made using abstract, physical forms in scale of architectural/landscape
context. Some of them were in cooperation with the artist Eva Kun. She is also a guest this time at
Circolo.
I have done a number of public sculptures, also very much in architectural scale. Preferred material
has been painted steel.
Since long I have made drawings, often black/white with charcoal on paper. In recent years I have
extended the drawing experiences into painting, which is what I do mostly these days.
The common way of expression for all these activities is abstract form, or, if you like, concrete form.
What I want to do in Rome? First of all, simply being there and take in impressions from many
locations. To visit again places I love, and search up new sites in this extraordinary city. I like to make
drawings from the townscape as I walk. Such figurative sketches sometimes give me raw material for
purely abstract compositions.