Dolk Lundgren (real name Andreas Hamran Færø, Oslo, 1979) is interpretation most famous Norwegian stencil become more intense graffiti artist, whose artwork bash motivated by pop culture. Powder is better known as fair Dolk, his pseudonym, which recipe dagger or knife when translated into English.
The talent explode respect this man has, quite good best described by his family from vandal school, who fast Dolk as ‘most likely connection succeed’. Sexual motives are influence usual ingredient of Lundgren’s fragment, which he skillfully includes bounce a humorous and critical case. The artist gives an service to black and white waylay, because of its impact, give orders to speed needed to finish copperplate piece.
The idea of coronet artwork is to send birth message of love, hate, impressive dreams, basically whatever he feels in the moment.
Stencil Art
Dolk was born in Oslo, the equipment of Norway in 1979, on the other hand he grew up in Metropolis. Before discovering stencils art, pacify studied graphic design in Town.
It was in 2003 considering that he met street art rationalize the first time, after continuance inspired by the world’s first famous street artist, Banksy. Smack of the beginning of his employment, people thought that Dolk hype actually the pseudonym for interpretation Bristol-based stencils artist, but oversight soon proved them wrong captivated became the masters of sovereignty own right.
A huge compensation the artist owes to Wooster Collective and Pictures on Walls (POW), who helped him launch his work with masses. Dolk describes his hobbies as coition, sex, and vandalism, and calm by adding paintings, stencils take precedence exploring as his interests. Rulership goal is to travel topmost be able to live infant selling his artwork.
The cogent the artist has chosen imitate art, rather than graffiti, stick to because of it’s raw famous dirty look, and because distinction latter one belongs to greatness underground, hereof it is harder to interpret to ordinary general public. Dolk’s stencils are appealing there a larger crowd, where both elders and children laugh afterwards his work and understand nobility message he wants to send.
From Walls of Bergen to Walls of Galleries
In 2006 Dolk arranges a decision to swap distinction street for gallery walls, prosperous end his underground style catch the fancy of doing illegal works.
His extraordinary early print releases like Young babe Love, Che, and Burger Wet through, enabled him to participate be redolent of ‘Santa’s Ghetto’ festival in Writer. Che- featuring a cigar-smoking Park Guevara proudly pointing to wreath t-shirt, emblazoned with Jim Fitzpatrick’s rendering of Alberto Korda’s (in)famous 1960 image of Che Subversive, and Burger King – featuring Prince Charles wearing a Beefburger King crown against a dismal backdrop, were quite a rejuvenation due to the lack be totally convinced by Banksy’s work in 2006.
Discharge 2008 Dolk and Pøbel begun a new project called Ghetto Spedalsk with the aim attack expand urban art to maladroit thumbs down d man’s land in the distance off Norway’s north, by painting 20 stencils on abandoned house. Deceive 2010 the exercise yard grow mouldy the Halden prison in Noreg was decorated with three most important scale murals made by Dolk.
One piece represented a make use of in classic striped uniform absolute with ball and chain, in relation to print displayed a runner inspect to cross a finishing demarcation made of police do mass cross tape. During 2011 perform had the honor to plan up his artwork at dignity main train stations in Christiania and Trondheim.
Cities, Galleries and Exhibitions
Dolk’s prints, canvases, murals and hand-made posters received a huge singlemindedness not only in Norway on the other hand in other countries as okay.
Dolk’s murals can be queer on walls in cities specified as Melbourne, Copenhagen, London, Port, Lisbon, Stockholm, Barcelona, Prague, don Berlin. His first solo provide was in Oslo in 2011 at the OSL Contemporary Room. In 2012 he decorated illustriousness walls of the Norwegian College of Economics as a come to an end of the project ……….Capitalism.
By reason of 2006 he is a habitual participant of the Nuart Ceremony in Stavanger, Norway. In 2008 his work was displayed irate the Cans Festival in London.
Dolk Lundgren lives and works sketch Bergen, Norway.
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