We are proud to present solo show by MARIA TORP with new paintings, sculptures and drawings.
Maria Torp (born 1975) masters the superrealistic genre, which has been a continuous feature in her oeuvre.
Her paintings are pure dynamic precision and yet they offer a sensibility, characteristic also to Torps sculptures and drawings.
Maria Torp invites us to rediscover the well known and inspires to curiosity towards the unknown. She works with her motives in an open dialogue of what they really portray as the narratives of minor details or formal expressions open up the motive or turns our understanding entirely upside-down.
Throughout her early career, drawings established the foundation of her work. More recently they have become an important inspiration both as an expression form of itself but also as a blueprint for her paintings and sculptures. The artist translates the drawings into photos, which she translates again into paintings – a process that both integrates and resolves the
