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"Maître en Bleu"

About the Artist

Dag O´Pegrén - born 1940.

Swedish artist: Painter and Poet. M.A.

Member of "SK" - Swedish Artists´ Society.

Working with paintings i acrylic, aquarel and oil since 1982.

 Back in Sweden - Halland - after 'a life´s experience'  in Norway.

Education

Graduated from Latin Gymnasium in Motala - Sweden, 1961.

Studies at The University of Stockholm 1963 - 69.

Main subjects: Business Echonomy, Psychology and Sociology.

Graduated 1969 with an M.A. - In 1986 Research Education

and Training in Medicine.

Professional career

Career within the Pharmaceutical Industry in Sweden, Germany,

Switzerland and Norway in various positions and functions 1969 - 95.

Clinical Research Coordinator 1986 - 90.

Artisticly

Started to paint "for real" in 1982. Autodidact mainly.

Release of a Poetry Booklet 1986: "Childrens Space - Splinters of Light"

("Barnrymd - Skärvor av Ljus").

My personal artistic way goes toward "Existential Symbolism" during 1986 - 98.Thereafter an expansion against a perceptually more free kind of paint work, that can bee seen in "New Phase Collection" and "Water Moods".Presently I work rather along these "3 Dimensions" as some sort of "ProgressiveSynthesis" of earlier forms of expression. It is said that I developped an own "style". Perhaps. I don´t sign my pictures anymore. No need. A "Pegrén" is easy to recognise.Occasionally I put my signature on the back - when wished for. Nowadays (2009) regarded and acknowledged as one of the foremost and deeply envolved painters of the World - with regard to human conscience and understanding.

Philosophy as an Artist

Somebody has said that "being an Artist is not a profession. it is rather a state ofbeing". No, in my view it is more precise than such a "dim thing". To me it is morea question of "Life attitudes - melted together in and expressed through a personaltemperament" which in good moments give origin to pictures with "high temperature".For me the essence of Picture Poesis lies so close to that of Music - in expression, attraction and valeur. Both communicate directly with 3 of -"our life-primary senses: Vision, hearing and the intuitive feeling" in full resonance with "the pounding heart"...

Influences through the years

Pablo Neruda and Roberto Matta - Chile, Octavio Paz - Mexico, Albert Camus&J P Sartre, André Gide, W.A. Mozart, J.S. Bach, Harry Martinsson, Nils Ferlin, Lars Foxe, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Françoise Sagan, Edit Piaf, Agostin Barrios, Francesco Tarrega, Michelangelo Antonioni, Salvatore Quasimodo, Jacques Brel, Jacque Prevert, Lars Englund, Tomas Tranströmer, Arnulf Øverland, Nordal Grieg, Max Ernst, Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Victor Clemente, Clifford Brown, Benny GolsonLars Gullin, Ulf Gripenholm, James Rosenquist, Guy la Rousille, Moris Gontard, Max Book,  Jakob Weideman, Ole Paus, Olle Bonniér, Vasilij Kandinsky, Marc Chagall ...and lots of others in a fine mix and in quite different ways.

Exhibitions

I have been and still am a bit restrictive with exhibitions - for several reasons -mostly because people liked and bought nearly all the pictures I reached to paint- before I "pulled the brakes" - pleasant of course - but my technique was a hinderingfor a huge production. At least in oil works. To often too little in storage to actually be able to exhibit. Added to that - illnesses in longer periods .

Well, some solo exhibitions could still be performed:

Handelsbanken - Växjö, Sweden - debut 1986.

Galleri Chaplin - Norrköping, Sweden - 1986 - 91.

CELPAP Sweden Art Club - Stocholm - 1989.

BM Scandinavia Art Club - Stockholm - 1989.

Galleri Kino - Hønefoss, Norway - 1991 (Public gallery).

Innsbruck, Austria - 1993 (Collective exhib.)

Internet Gallery "Art Telier Pegrén" - from 1998 -(with ca 200 paintings).

2005 - Invited to represent Sweden at the 5th Biennial of

Contemporary International Art in Florence, 3 - 11 December.

"Artist of the Month" at Galleri Ett - Stockholm - April 2006.

Galleri O.S. - Sandnes/Stavanger, Norway - November 2006.

Invitation to participate at the Florence Museum of Art, Italy - October 2006.

"Art Nordic 2008" - April 17 - 21 at Gothenburg Fair Center - "Svenska Mässan"

"Konstliv Halland 2008" - May 1 - 4 2008.

Gallery Lynga, Morup, Sweden - June 28 - July 17, 2008.

"Galleri Oliven" - '25 years as artist',

 Gothenburg - November 21 - 28, 2008.

"World Art Vision 2008" - Cancún - Mexico

 - December 5 - 14 2008.

Coming Up

"Konstliv Halland 2009" - May 21 - 24 2009.

Private Collections

In France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden

and the USA a.o.

Public Collections

Swedish Television - Stockholm; Radiumhemmet - Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm;

Rikshospitalet - Oslo, Norway; Ullevaal Hospital - Oslo; AETAT - Norway;

HAPRO - Gran, Norway; Vrinnevi Hospital - Norrköping, Sweden;

Varberg Hospital - Varberg, Sweden; CIBA Vision, Switzerland a.o.

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