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Oivind Nygard (1948)

Artist Rank (2007): 10183 –

Most exhibitions in:
Denmark	10

Most exhibitions with:
Name	Rank	№
Elisabeth Toubro	6314	6
Morten Straede	9629	3
Martin Erik Andersen	6550	3
Kirsten Ortwed	3480	3

Biography

1948
Born

Øivind Nygård (b. 1948), a student of Willy Ørskov, belongs to the group of "cool" sculptors that graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in the early 1980s. Nygård works with a form of inertia in his sculptures. The inertia is how the work projects meaning. It is the resistant secret that the sculpture seems to guard, when, in fact, no hidden meaning exists for the spectator to uncover by efforts of interpretation. The secret is purely ritual, merely a necessary function for the definition of a site, a gestalt and a meaning. Most often, Nygård constructs his sculptures using a simple and clear formal vocabulary, which, despite its apparent simplicity, contains highly complex structures. The sculptures point outward and inward on several planes, while rejecting any attempt to gather the threads into a uniform meaning.

Public exhibitions 10