The churchkeeper 

The Gallery Genesis in Athens presents "Dreamtime journey"

a solo exhibition by the Swedish artist Arne Frifarere

Galleri Genesis, 35, Haritos Street, Kolonaki

www.gallerygenesisathens.com 

The Painting Poet's Language

 Carpaccio was the name of a Venetian young-rennaissance painter who captured the city and its inhabitants as a perpetual story. Sneaking quitely through the narrow streets, passing the crowded squares, in solitude on a piedestal in their palaces fearing the plague - or cherishing the coming carnevale´s endless possibilities for incognito amusement. A few hundred miles north in Sweden other intrigues and plots, games of romp and lusts were played out in a considerably more barren environment. Rulers such as Harald, Erik and Magnus were also making schemes but are disturbed by the unpredictable, erratic turns of fate, moments of bliss or another year of famine.

 Arne Frifarare repaints the history like a contemporary Carpaccio, who has received the key to the chamber of eternal light, where everything reappears only slightly jolted. The frame of mind is tightened just a hue or nuance to capture a more serene existence. Just like on an enchanted autumnal day the light cuts through - exceptionally sharp in contours and contrasts.

 The painter of piety, who thought himself being the tool of God, generously lends from his own pantry to his present day colleague. Limewashed walls of faith, of hope and for prayers of mercy, are crouching below the mountain ridges strugggling to raise out of the soil.

Arne Frifarare moves comfortably, and by necessity, throughout history and between the chambers of the "then" and "now". For us, he restores the poem, the fairytale and the fantasy as means to conquer life.

 Susanna Slöör

Art Critic

"omkonst", Swedish Art magazine

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