The internationally renowned Norwegian artist Kenneth Blom approaches his compositions with the attitude of a stage director: on engineered backgrounds, characters/actors go on the scene to personify the theater of reality. The artist proposes his view on the current world.
Blom’s sense of theatricality possesses an evident psychological substratum: the characters of his painting and their state of mind reflected in their actions – either if they fight, jump, run, or fall – are indisputable archetypes of the human psychological condition, and existential obsessions.
The use of diagonal lines skillfully mixed with horizontal fugues and minimalistic geometric design – reminding of the tautness and charm typical of the buildings at the time of the birth of modern architecture – brings the focus of the viewer to the human drama happening in the painting, invariably.
The latent sensitivity of the compositions is furthermore underlined by the sapient alternation of abstract and figurative painting, where wild strokes alternate with controlled ones, contributing to building the mystery, the inquietude, and the narrative of each painting. Additionally, the scenographic backgrounds with endless skies, and bright portions of colors, mixed with geometrical elements give the sensation of the universe collapsing and twisting to that specific single moment, frozen in time, immortalized on canvas.