OLÉ AHLBERG
Sat 25 May
|In the middle of the center
Ole Ahlberg, leaving no room for doubt, emphasizes that Tintin is a fictional person by depicting him with Hergé's sharp, black outlines in contrast to the rest of the Clair obscure paintings.
Time & Location
25 May 2024, 12:00 – 26 May 2024, 16:00
In the middle of the center, Korsgatan 18, 411 16 Gothenburg, Sweden
About the event
Ole Ahlberg's oil paintings of Tintin, Captain Haddock, Terry, the Duponts and the other characters from Hergé's universe have attracted worldwide attention. Collectors can wait years to obtain an original painting. Not only because the famous figures are in the company of beautiful women and bare skin, and indeed not only because there has been a dispute over the right to paint Tintin in equivocal settings but for a simple reason: it is good art created by a unique artist.
The picture has a central scene where the action takes place, but this does not make his pictures any less enigmatic or ambiguous. He often uses a plain background, black or dark blue. A background that appears even more inscrutable and mysterious in relation to the illuminated objects in the foreground. Layer painting, which is Ole Ahlberg's specialty, in this way gives an infinite depth to the painting, while the…