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In the exhibition "Beyond…", two artists meet who, each in their own way, explore humanity’s relationship with nature, silence, and what lies beyond the immediately visible. Through paintings and watercolors, Mona Eckhoff Sørmo and Torkild Iversen invite viewers to move inward—toward horizons, moods, and experiences that lie beyond the concrete.
Torkild Iversen’s paintings are characterized by the blue hour, twilight, and nature’s mysterious presence. He works figuratively and realistically, but filters mountain motifs through darkness and shifting light, making the landscapes appear both recognizable and enigmatic. The winter mountains are built up using traditional painting techniques in oil on canvas or wood, with monochrome shades of blue and earth tones dominating. Through subtle contrasts and tonal variations, the mountains’ weight and depth are emphasized, as is the tension between soft snow and hard rock formations. The result is a series of quiet, powerful landscapes that convey a sense of timeless calm.
Mona Eckhoff Sørmo works across several forms of expression—painting, drawing, photography, installation, and illustration—and her artistic practice examines human existence in relation to nature’s larger contexts. In the series On the Way, she explores the human encounter with the infinite and untouched. The wandering figure in the landscape becomes a metaphor for life’s journey: we move alone or together, lightly or with heavy baggage, always toward a horizon that both beckons and remains beyond reach.
Together, the artists create a space for reflection. Where Iversen’s landscapes convey nature’s quiet weight and dark light, Eckhoff’s works point toward the human inner journey. In the encounter between them, a poetic landscape emerges—a place between the outer and the inner, between nature and experience, between what we see and what lies beyond.
About the exhibition:
The exhibition "Beyond.." can be seen from March 19–29 at Gallery M35 in Tjuvholmen.
Address: Olav Selvaags plass 4, 0252 Oslo
