Artwork Description:
Frame size 36x48 inches. Awarded Trofeo Luigi Valenti, Cremona, Italy 2004. Awarded 1:st Price in Santa Maria delle arti 2004, Torino, Italy. Represented in the artdictionary 2004-2005 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, edition Alba. The gossamer lightness of a gesture - Richard Solstjarna fascinates me with his suites of paintings. In some of his art I see the gesture - the rapidly sketched sign, a fleeting feeling flashing past - captured, ethereal and beautiful, on paper. My thoughts turn towards to ZEN Buddhism. I think of Japanese calligraphy, that lives a world apart from Western art. I see images that want nothing else but to capture the gesture as a movement, as a beautiful impression of the heart's song, or purity. Stig Ake Stalnacke, international art critic Sweden, member of AICA(Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art). Valuation 20000 Euro. Mickaella Himmelstroem, International Art Appraiser, Jurymember, Sweden.