Viking Star Art Collection

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 ULF NILSEN 1950 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS Ulf Nilsen is a recognized Norwegian painter, educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. He has exhibited in several of the most important art institutions in Norway, and is represented in both private and public collections. Ulf Nilsen’s paintings are composed of different stories, deconstructed and reassembled. They are fragments of dreams, incoherent, abstract and real at the same time. He is concerned about the lack of coherence and seeks to create a fragmented reality where the arbitrary and the deliberate exist side by side. Still, Nilsen wants to give us keys to understand his imagery; abstract signs, pictures from media, figurative scenes and recognizable everyday objects — like a wheelbarrow or a clock, a chair, trees and flowers — all comprise his visual iconography. NORDIC SUNSET | 2014 34

THE RESTAURANT | DECK 2 ASTRID NONDAL 1958 x NORWAY x OIL ON CANVAS Astrid Nondal’s green and lush landscape paintings are both surreal and romantic. They do not depict any specific location, but are often the same type of landscape, a forest in early summer at its most intense green. Freed from the rules of traditional landscape painting, Nondal’s images are like windows into a strange and different realm, it’s where a secret story is about to unfold. Behind the leafy branches making up the foreground of her pictures, small human figures appear in the distance, giving the image a harmonious yet ambiguous feel. UTFLUKT MED RYTTERE | 2014 35