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OLÉ AHLBERG

lör 08 juni

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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.

OLÉ AHLBERG
OLÉ AHLBERG

Time & Location

08 juni 2024 12:00

In the middle of the center, Engelbrektsgatan 18, 211 33 Malmoe, 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 cartoon character has sharp, clear lines.

Somehow he finds a way to make the viewer largely create the evocative stories themselves.

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.

However, it is also interesting that eroticism in Ole Ahlberg's paintings is rarely shown directly to you. In one of the Tintin paintings, we see the young journalist suspiciously eyeing a red space rocket (from "Destination Moon") placed under the skirt of a beautiful woman. Presenting only a gaping Tintin, a rocket and a woman's lower body, Ole Ahlberg entices the viewer to become a co-creator by conjuring the erotic feat from their own subconscious.

Here the artist starts from the age-old truth that the most sex-fixated people on earth are the Puritans, who can find sexual references even in the most innocent motifs. All because they refuse to admit their own sexual urges.

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