Solo exhibition Gallery A, Oslo
November 2019
In the Reality of Imagination
«Throughout his career as an artist, Dag Ronny Pettersen has taken nature as his starting point. Not only through «Pictures from No Man's Land», a theme he has returned to over many years, but also through a life lived very close to the nature he depicts. Is his art a portent, a warning that we long ago set off in the wrong direction? Is it an expression of the idea that aesthetics and harmony can be powerful forces in our vulnerable world? Can art, and not least the image, which has accompanied humankind since the dawn of time, make a difference? In his paintings I see the warning, but also a hope. It is not too late as long as art is still being made and we have the chance to experience it. In the immersion that art offers lie great possibilities. Not least in a «no man's land» open to all who are willing to see.»
Sten Torstensson, founder of Dalsland Art Museum, Sweden