Mourlot Editions 6/7 Pink Chasuble
Details
Edition
18/60
Medium
Woodcut on 250g Arches
Signature
Signed and Numbered by Artist
Unframed Dimensions
30 x 22 in
76.2 x 55.88 cm
Framed Dimensions
36 x 28.5 x 2.5 in
91.44 x 72.39 x 6.35 cm
Year
2022
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Magne Furuholmen (born 1962) is a Norwegian visual artist and internationally celebrated musician whose creative impact bridges the worlds of contemporary art and global pop culture. Known worldwide as a founding member and keyboardist of the iconic band A-ha, Furuholmen has simultaneously cultivated a distinguished career as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, ceramicist, and glass artist. Throughout his practice, Magne Furuholmen weaves lyrical abstraction with symbolic, spiritual, and cultural motifs shaped by a lifelong conversation with music, language, memory, and loss. The early death of his father, a jazz musician who passed away in a tragic plane crash when Furuholmen was six years old, remains a defining emotional current in his compositions. Rhythm and silence, improvisation and reflection: these dualities form the foundational pulse of his artistic voice.
His landmark suite Esper Lucat represents one of the most meditative and ambitious bodies of work in his career. The series began as a contemplation of Henri Matisse’s La Chapelle du Rosaire, the artist’s final and most spiritual project. Familiar with the chapel near Vence, France, Furuholmen was drawn to Matisse’s ecclesiastical vestments, particularly the inscription Esper Lucat, meaning Hope and Light. His initial seven large-scale woodcuts (the Esper Lucat – Mourlot Edition) echo Matisse’s bold liturgical shapes and sacred color harmonies, but reinterpret them through Furuholmen’s own improvisational sensibility, an approach akin to musical variation or jazz phrasing.
From these seven woodcuts emerged the Deluxe Edition: forty-nine monotypes, each undergoing seven stages of transformation in both structure and color. While the imagery draws from a shared source, no two prints are alike. Much like musical riffs branching from the same melody, each variation uncovers a new emotional or spiritual resonance. The result is a suite of works that feel both reverent and exploratory, an homage that evolves into its own expressive language.
As a visual artist, Magne Furuholmen has exhibited widely throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Norwegian State Archives and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 2016, he completed Imprints, the largest ceramic sculpture park in Scandinavia, a monumental public commission outside Oslo that solidified his reputation as a major figure in contemporary Nordic art.
Explore Magne Furuholmen at DTR Modern Galleries
In 2024, Magne Furuholmen presented his Esper Lucat monotypes in a celebrated exhibition with DTR Modern Galleries at the National Arts Club in New York City. DTR continues to showcase his work across their contemporary program, offering collectors access to one of the most compelling multidisciplinary voices of our time.
