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c/o CORPELTOF via Andreas Mandal Fortes van Cabo Verde en Vallersund
Andreas Mandal Fortes
Born/raised: Trondheim, Norway / 1984
Education: Honours Degree, Fine Art (painting) / City & Guilds of London Art School, UK / 2008
Mandal Fortes is predominantly concerned with painting as form and format. The situational (and material circumstances,) has a tendency to lay grounds for the artist's strategies in approaching the work, and he sees painting as an unfolding field of evocation and discovery. This opens up to a variety of different utilisations, dependent on the work's position.
The artist considers the act of painting, and the studio situation, as such, a panoptic vantage point in his work, in as much as the paintings themselves often function as artifice in a larger reading.
Mandal Fortes sees the imaginative and fantastical as an invitation for his exploration into the other – the solemn to its frivolous counterpart – attempting foothold onto, and making sense of the oscillating pendulum between diametrically opposed polarities. As culturally and ethnically mixed himself, the amalgamation of the artist's interests, arising from his reluctance to singularly identify, lie in the unexplored, the undefined, the unresolved mercurial stream down the Yin Yang of painterly ontology; The Hintergedanken; The afterthought; The right fly in the right ointment.
Andreas Mandal Fortes lives and works in Trondheim.

Selected works

Podium
Oil on MDF
Approx. 30 x 32 cm

Spectre
Oil on canvas
Approx. 100 x 70 cm

Initial Stages I
Oil/acrylic on canvas
Approx. 18 x 12 cm

Marzipan Fiction
Oil/acrylic on hardboard
Approx 55 x 90 cm




Gemma ex Cauda Pavonis III, II, VI, I
Oil/acrylic on MDF

Diverging in the Yellow Woods
Oil/acrylic on MDF
Approx. 45 x 60 cm

Omnivourous Tackle Box III (Ouroboric Agitator)
Oil on canvas
Approx. 120 x 90 cm







Sigilum I, II, III, IV
Oil/acrylic on hardboard
Approx. 20 x 14 cm

En Tropical Desertion
Oil on MDF
Approx. 90 x 90 (x2)


Lyset legger begge retninger bak seg II, IV
Oil/acrylic on plywood
Approx. 20 x 38 cm

What Could Possibly Go Wrong And Eat Me
Oil on canvas
Approx. 100 x 70 cm

My Favourite Kind Of Creepy Is Silly
Oil on canvas
Approx. 35 x 45 cm

Vintage Megajar
Oil/acrylic on MDF
Approx. 65 x 100 cm

I Hate All These Girls So Hot Right Now
Oil/acrylic on MDF
Approx. 60 x 60 cm
