Reidar Finsrud
Reidar Finsrud (born 5 March 1946 in Drøbak) is a Norwegian artist. He is educated at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry at the graphical artist course, where he finished in 1970 with the diploma for his project "Venezia" which got the grade "commended to the King" (older grade system, basically top marks and extremely rare, the Latin name is laudabilis cum litteris commendatitiis), the third time in history of the school. In 1975 he opened "Gallery Finsrud", the largest privately owned art gallery in Eastern Norway. The same year he also opened "Finsrud's drawing and painting school".[1]
Artist and inventor
Finsrud works with various techniques and formats; painting, drawing, graphics and sculpture. He works with innovation, technical inventions and industrial design. His invention "Perpetuum mobile" received a lot of media attention, which was finished in 1996. He has developed his own casting technique which he has used for most of his sculptures. The technique allows for direct casting, so that each of his sculptures is an original (and not a copy of an original, which is the case with for instance bronze casting of a sculpture). He has also constructed his own printing press, which he uses for making graphic printmaking. There's also been made a documentary about Finsrud; "Det umuliges kunst" ("The Art of the Impossible), which was shown on NRK and some international TV-stations. The documentary describes Finsrud's artistic works, especially focusing on his invention Perpetum mobile and it was directed by Øyvind Asbjørnsen.
References
- ↑ "Reidar Finsrud". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 February 2013.