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HANNE BORCHGREVINK
1951 NORWAY WOODCUT
Norwegian painter and graphic artist Hanne Borchgrevink trained in Oslo, Norway, at the National College of Art and Design as well as
under visual artists Arne Malmedal and Ludvig Eikaas at the National Academy of Fine Art. Throughout Borchgrevink’s career, houses
have been the central theme of her art. She deconstructs them down to what one could consider the house’s essence, taking a number
of surfaces and perspectives and merging them together to create a distillation of a house. So what at first appears to be nativistic and
simplified becomes ambiguous and dynamic upon further exploration.
Since her debut exhibition in 1978, Borchgrevink has mainly worked with woodcuts and paintings and has had a substantial influence on
the Norwegian postmodern art scene. Her work can be found among the renowned collections of the National Museum in Oslo and the
British Museum in London.
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