Mari Slaattelid

This Said Off-Topic 2, 2024 Acrylic, pigment and PVA on cotton canvas 130 x 110 cm / 51 1/8 x 43 1/4 in Unique / Mari Slaattelid was born in Notodden, Norway in 1960. She lives and works in Oslo, Norway. "A man on a ladder, the land across the fjord, a triangle on a mast fastened to the rock. Below him on the fjord, he has everyone who knows they've been seen, who knows they're in the picture. For him everything is spirit-level level, the black fjord and the black land. Cosmologically he's at home, a semblance of Caspar David Friedrich's observers with their backs to the viewer, 200 years back in time, every one of them sent out like him, for the sake of painting." Text from Mari Slaattelid's "You Are Here", 2019