Stein Rønning

Stein Rønning (b. 1953) in Askim, Norway, received his artistic education from The Academy of Art in Trondheim and Vestlandets Kunstakademi in Bergen, 1975-79. After several decades of teaching and holding professorships at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Bergen Academy of Arts and Design, Rønning has exhibited regularly in recent years, as well as published a series of booklets and two monographs. In his work he pursues an interest in combining painting, photography and object. His photographic prints seem to camouflage as painted surfaces and the finely tuned nuances among the works themselves command a heightened sense of attention in the viewer, as well as a calibration of the exhibition space. Rønning employs a similar complex and conceptual approach to his long-standing and meandering series of sculptures in various materials such as plaster and cellulose coated with pigments and polymers, as well as patinated cast bronze.