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Artwork by Ronny BankAbout Ronny Bank
Ronny Bank (b. 1971 / Larvik, Norway), is a Norwegian painter well known for his humoristic approach with a reference to the daily life which sometimes can be serious depending how a person looks at it.What is there to see? And what kind of visual reality meets us in the cacophonous, postmodern society?
He caricatures, parodies and portray characters, stories and own memories from his childhood. Toying and playing around with emotions that is still in him! Forgotten memories that emerge again!? The fantasies he used to play around with… is it still in him? But perhaps most importantly as he says himself - "What remains of me, the original me, from that time. Am I still a child? Or am I just a grown up?"
Ronny Bank asks these questions in his paintings. He goes into the culture that surrounds us on a daily basis, the seemingly incoherent amount of images and expressions that confront us in the mass media, in movies, TV series, commercials, all the modern mythologies, the way Andy Warhol did before him ...Discover Artworks