Location: Brazil
Ole Skovsmose was born in Denmark, but is now living most of his time in Brazil. He has staged exhibitions in galleries and museums in England, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Norway, Bulgaria, Brazil, and Denmark. He has participated in various collaborative art projects, for instance combining music and painting. He is a member of various art associations including Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques.
In the book SAUDADE, one can read more about some his pantings including the projects: Faces as Landcapes, Touching the Horizon, and The Four Graces:
In TV BRASIL one find a presentation where Ole Skovsmose is participating: http://tvbrasil.ebc.com.br/reporterbrasil/bloco/bela-bienal-conta-com-a-participacao-de-90-artistas-no-rio
If one has comments or questions, maybe interested in buying a picture, please write to oskpictures@gmail.com or osk@learning.aau.dk
Address in Denmark: Ole Skovsmose, Møllevej 10B, 9520 Skørping, Denmark.
Address in Brazil: Ole Skovsmose, Rua 4, No. 555, Apto 44, CENTRO, 13500-030, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS. Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgarien, 2015-2016. ”Hverdagssmilet – og andre fortælinger”, Galeri Tornby, Bindslev, Nordjylland. Himmerlands Teater, Hobro, 2015. MUNDO INTERIOR. Internet gallery. mwww.mundointerior.com.br/category/pintores/ole-skovsmose/. ”Kunst i Stenum”, Stenum 2015. ”Emotions” together with Anne Grethe Aaen, Galleri Himmerland, Gatten at Aars, 2015. ”Aalborg in Colours”, Aalborg, 2015. Biennial of European and Latin American Contemporary Art (BELA), Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 2015. Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2014. Galleri Inuit, Aalborg, 2014. “Art Shopping”, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, 2014. “Jogo das Artes” Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, 2014. MVArte – Mostra Virtual de Arte, Galeria de Arte, Ana Pirolo, 2014. “They Turn North Jutland Colourful”, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, 2014. “Aalborg in Colours”, Aalborg, 2014. Galleri Zimmerart, Skørping, 2014, ”Touching the horizon”, Frederikshavn Rådhus, 2014,.”Saudades, Anxiety, Love, and other Pictures”, Galleri Himmerland, Gatten, Aars, 2013 (solo-exhibition). ”Art During Easter”, Frederiksberg, 2013. “Easter Exhibition”, Brønderslev Gymnasium, 2013. ”Easter Exhibition”, Galleri Himmerland, Gatten, Aars, 2013. Galeria Colorida, Lisabon, 2013, Buderup Ødekirke, Skørping, 2012. (Together with Edvard Hundevad.), “From dreams to Dailight”, Galleri Himmerland, Gatten, Aars, 2012, solo-exhibition. Galería Krabbe, Malaga, Spain. Biennal of European and Latin American Contemporary Art (BELA), Galeria do Palacio, Porto, Portugal, 2012. ”Escaped moments”, Kulturkøbmanden, Store Brøndum, 2012, solo-exhibition. ”Artists from Rebild”, Katrineholm Mejeri, Store Brøndum, 2011. Galleri Himmerland, Gatten, Aars, 2011, solo-exhibition. ”Diálogo”, Brazilian Contemporary Art, AVA Galleria, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. “They turn North Jutland colourful”, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, 2011. “Coffe and Tropical Colours”, Brazilian Contemporary Art, Poleeni Kulttuurikeskus, Pieksämäki, Finland, 2011. ”Art During Easter”, Frederiksberg, 2011. In preparation. “Easter Exhibition”, Gallery Himmerland, Gatten at Aars, 2011. ”Art gives life”, Art During Easter, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, 2011. Logimatic, Aalborg, 2011, solo-exhibition. Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2010 – January 2011. “Touching the Horizon” /“Tocando o Horizonte”, PontoArt, Vila Madalena, São Paulo, 2010, solo-exhibition combining paintings with poetry by Tiel Lieder. “Viewing the Art”, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg 2010. Galleri Inuit, Aalborg 2010. Solo-exhibition.
SELECTED PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS: Easter Exhibition, Støvring Højskole, 1994. Almere Stadt, The Netherlands, 1995. Easter Exhibition, Gammel Vrå Slot, 1994. ”Somewhere in October”, Aalborg 1993 (Combining installations and music: A colaborative project together with Ove Bering, Viggo Steincke Bertelsen and Kim Hedemann Jensen.) The Danish Embassy, London, England, 1993. The Willows, Oxhott, England 1993 (solo-exhibition). Frederikshavn Art Museum, 1993. Gallery Ålborghallen, Aalborg 1992 (solo-exhibition). Gallery Marius, Copenhagen 1990. (Solo-exhibition combining paintings and poetry by Maria Giacobbe). Kunstbygningen SAK, Svendborg 1990 (solo-exhibition). “Noah’s Ark”, Aalborg 1989. Frederikshavn Art Museum, 1989. ”Standardrejser”, Ålborg Kunstpavillon 1988. (Combining paintings and modern music by Knud Riishøjgaard). Gallery Marius København 1988. Frederikshavn Art Museum 1988. Almere Stadt, Holland 1987. Ålborg Kunstpavillon 1987 (solo-exhibition combining paintings and poetry by Maria Giacobbe), Kulturhuset i Helsinki, Finland 1987. Galleri Rampelyset, Silkeborg 1986. (Solo-exhibition) Galleri Ti, Tistrup 1986. Artists’ Summer Exhibition (Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling), Tistrup 1986. Arendal Kunstforening, Norge 1985. Artists’ Easter Exhibition (Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling), Århus 1986. Ålborg Kunstpavillon, Aalborg 1985. Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund 1985. Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg 1985. Artists’ Autumn Exhibition(Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling), Copenhagen 1985. Artists’ Summer Exhibition Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Tistrup 1985. Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg 1985. Arendal Kunstforening, Arendal, Norge 1985. Artists’ Summer Exhibition (Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling), Tistrup 1984. Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, Svendborg 1984. Den Alternative 1983, 1984. Limfjordens Efterårsudstilling 1983.
Films are about love, anxiety, hope, fear, longing, uncertainty, all kind of human emotions. A film consists of many, many pictures. A painting is also a kind of film, although it consists of just one picture. It could be about any kind of human emotions. Here I tell about uncertainties.
Acrylic on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
A face is a most fascinating landscape. It includes all kind of colours, lines, and surfaces. It includes lightness and darkness, green and brown, and many hidden places. I like to explore the emotions of landscapes.
Acrylic on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
Acrylic on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
Acrylic on canvas
30 cm X 30 cm
Acrylic on canvas
30 cm X 30 cm
Throughout the history of art, the three Graces have always appeared together. They always turn towards each other. They hold each other’s hands. They admire each other. The three Graces, however, have always excluded the fourth. At least we have never heard about the fourth. But I decided to paint her as well.
Oil on canvas
120 cm X 140 cm
Oil on canvas
120 cm X 140 cm
Oil on canvas
120 cm X 140 cm
Oil on canvas
120 cm X 140 cm
Acrylic on canvas,
100 cm X 90 cm
Acrylic on canvas,
100 cm X 90 cm
I painted this picture in memory of Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), who in One Hundred Years of Solitude describes how a remarkable character was constantly swarmed by yellow butterflies. In the end such butterflies might also have followed Márquez.
I enjoy very much the place where I’m painting. It is a small house, the light is perfect, and outside these is a small garden.
Although painted on two different canvases the couple stay together: for the moment at the restaurant MERO just around the corner here in Rio Claro where we live. Maybe they look at the guests around; maybe they notice when Miriam, my wife and I visit the restaurant; maybe their minds travel somewhere else. But above all: they are happy to be together.
GALARIA COLORIDA in Lisbon shows some of my paintings. One of the paintings I have called Mona Lisa with the Harelip. I do not know about other paintings paying attention to this very human feature.
Oil on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
Oil on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
Oil on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
Oil on canvas
60 cm X 60 cm
DOUBT is a profound human emotion, as deeply rooted in the human condition as the existentialist conception of anxiety. I have tried to express doubt through the inpredictable dynamics of colours.
One can express emotions in words: anxiety, hope, love, longing… One can also express them in pictures. Emotions are formed through contradictions and paradoxes. I have tried to capture some on the cheapest possible material: cardboards from boxes in which fruits, TV sets, computers, whatever, have been transported. The deepest emotions make part of the flow of everyday life.
Oil on cardboard
22 cm X 28 com
Carrousel du Louvre. Here I participate in an Art Faire in October 2014. I show a couple of paintings form the series “Mona Lisa with a Harelip”. See
http://www.salon-artshopping.com/fiche-artiste/ole-skovsmose-4927.htm
Oil on canvas
50 cm X 50 cm
Oil on canvas
50 cm X 50 cm
Oil on canvas
80 cm X 100 cm
Oil on canvas
80 cm X 100 cm
Oil on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
80 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas
45 cm X 45 cm
HVERDAGSSMILET. This everyday smile comes from within – when one remembers, when one thinks ahead, and when one imagines. It does not belong to parties or to photographing.
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
Oil on canvas,
45 cm X 45 cm
HVERDAGSSMILET is comes from within, maybe when one imagines what could have happened that day in the past.
Oil on canvas
55 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
55 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
55 cm X 80 cm
Oil on canvas
55 cm X 80 cm
“Uncertainty I”
“Uncertainty II”
“Uncertainty III”
“Uncertainty IV”
“Portrait from memory I”
“Portrait from memory II”
“Protrait from memory III”
“Portrait form memory IV”
“The First Grace”
“The Second Grace”
“The Third Grace”
“The Fourth Grace”
“Cafe e Amor, I”
“Cafe e Amor, III”
“Cafe e Amor, I, Detail”
“Cafe e Amor, III Detail”
“Cafe e Amor, III Detail”
“GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (1927-2014) ”
“Detail”
“Detail”
“Detail”
“From my atelier”
“From my atelier”
“From my atelier”
“From my atelier”
“From my atelier”
“From my atelier”
“Him”
“Her”
“Portrait, I”
“Portrait, II”
“Portrait, III”
“Portrait, IV”
“Doubt-1”
“Doubt-2”
“Doubt-3”
“Doubt-4”
“AVA-Magazine”
“AVA-Magazine”
“AVA-Magazine”
“Uncertainty, IV”
“Uncertainty, V”
“Poretrait. I”
“Portrait, II”
“Portrait, III”
“Portrait, IV”
“Portrait, V”
“LANDSCAPE, I”
“LANDSCAPE, II”
“Portrait, I”
“Portrait, II”
“Portrait, IV”
“Portrait, V”
“Portrait, VII”
“Portrait, VIII”
“Portrait, X”
“Portrait, XI”
“Portrait, XIII”
“Portrait XIV”
“A small smile, I”
“A small smile, II”
“A small smile, III”
“A small smile, IV”
“A small smile, V”
“A small smile, VI”
“Could it be?”
“Could it be?”
“Could it be?”
“Could it be?”
