Bjørn Bjarre
Bjørn Bjarre´s multiple Rabbit is an attempt to recreate the origin of a pop-art classic; Jeff Koons similiarly titled sculpture in stainless steel from 1986. Bjarre rediscovered a film where he as a toddler played with a pink inflatable rabbit, and he realized at last why Koons´ sculpture always has made such a strong impression on him. The rabbit he played with was almost identical with Koons´ sculpture, but not quite. Bjarre´s version is therefore not a copy of Koons, but a faithful representation of a similar rabbit from his childhood.
The sculpture is painstakingly modelled, cast and painted by hand. It is made specially for Snowball Editions in an edition of 12 copies.
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Bjørn Bjarre
Born, 1966, in Oslo, NorwayLives and works in Oslo, NorwayArtistic expression: Sculpture, drawing and installation.
Artist statementBjørn Bjarre's art through the past 20 years include comics, sculpture, installations, artist books, texts and drawings. He is best known for his sculpture-series Abstract Feeling which was initiated in 1995.
Bjarre's working method is conceptual and project-based. The point of departure is art theory and -history, politics and popular culture filtered through a personal body. His basic interests are dreams, childhood, language, technology, memory, materiality and transience.
Bjørn Bjarre is educated at the National Academy of Fine Art in 1994. I 2008, he produced his first public outdoor sculpture for Tempo Skien. His latest solo exhibition was in January 2008 at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway. A collection of his comics from the late eighties was published by Jippi Forlag in 2001. He is a previous editor of UKS-Forum for Samtidskunst and is represented in the collections of The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Bergen Art Museum, Statoil-Hydro, Nordea and Storebrand.
