Zawyeh Gallery is pleased to invite you to the closing reception of "Life Chapters" by Håkon Gullvåg.
Mrs. Hilde Haraldstad, Norwegian representative to Palestine will be joining us for the evening.
60% of the proceeds of artwork sales will go to support Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF)
We look forward to seeing you.
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Håkon Gullvåg was born in 1959 in Trondheim, Norway. At seventeen years of age, he was enrolled at Trondheim Art Academy by special permission, where he studied under painters John Anton Risan and Georg Suttner, among others. Since his breakthrough solo exhibition in Gallery Dobloug in Oslo in 1983, Gullvåg has been a name to be reckoned with in Norway’s cultural life.
Several institutions have acquired his works including The National Gallery of Norway. An established artist, he has won acclaim in Scandinavia and internationally including Italy, France, Great Britain and the US and recently in China, the Middle East and Poland.
In 2016, His Majesty the King of Norway appointed Håkon Gullvåg as Commander of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Gullvåg has completed a number of commissions, several of them ecclesiastical, both in Norway and abroad. In 2014 he decorated the altarpiece for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and The Holy Land.
Many of his exhibitions have been touring exhibitions, including Terra Sancta – an exhibition that opened in 2009 in Trondheim Art Museum and toured to the UNESCO Palace in Beirut; The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman and to Centre Culturel Français in Damascus.
Gullvåg painted the 42 large format works constituting Terra Sancta as a tribute to the children of Gaza, following the Israel invasion of Gaza in the winter of 2008-9.
As an artist, Gullvåg is known for his wide scope. He is acknowledged not only as a highly productive painter, but also as a graphic artist –mainly using the technique of lithography. His art is often described as figurative, although other adjectives have been used in parallel, e.g. surrealistic, postmodern, playful, baroque, narrative, mysteriously ambiguous, unsettling. Key themes and genres in Gullvåg’s body of work are childhood, historic as well as contemporary and official portraits, liturgical art and biblical narratives, politically aware art, and still life.
