Visual artist Jeff Ibbo from Denmark

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Jeff Ibbo is born 4/2 1941. My paintings are a study of  the human figure (preferably without clothes) to find a painterly expression. I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen 1964-70. Participated in approximately 15 juried exhibitions from 1966 to 1991 include KE, Charlottenborg, Tistrup summer exhibit and Kp, Aarhus. Separate Exhibitions, The Fries Building in 1997 -99-2001, Politiken gallery 2010. Published 3 cartoonbooks  1970, 71-72. Many galleries exhibits bla.galleri Marius, gallery Gerly, Art Associations and groups exhibits like Mult (1979-2014, Waiting for Noah in the Broensalen. 2014 Kbh.Berlin 2012 and 2014, Arts for All, Kerteminde artfestival, Samart, Koege. Biography written by Ole Lindbo in 2009

JEFF IBBO  -  ARTIST STATEMENT:

In 1979, I threw myself into a restless naturalistic theme of painting nature and humans, without any particular style. It led me back into an expressively figure painting, with roots in the Flemish ekspressionime (De Smet and Permeke) and Danish artists like Heerup. There is colored outlines around shapes, and large homogeneous surfaces. New debut in 86 at Charlottenborg, and KE91, and an entire wall with self-portraits

in the Ministry of Culture Exhibition Hall in Overgaden 93, together with Flemming Born and Steffen Sølberg. The colored contour disappeared gradually from the mid -90s, to be reborn as an often thin line shape that is tightly composed into the picture surface, and it was very textural, like the pictures I tried to paint in the early sixties. In some very large images, ca. 2 meters in height, I have worked even more with the purely physical painting, directly opposite models. Recently the colored contour is  resurfaced again as a more luminous marking of the figure that preserves the figurative impression and opens for more abstraction.

KONTAKT/CONTACT:

Jeff Ibbo, Erik Menvedsvej 2, 2 tv. 1965 Frederiksberg C. Denmark

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