EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS:
“Seed as a concentrate: That out of something hardly visible can emerge something so great, so mighty. But also as expression
of a mystery: As a static product between genesis and decay, the incarnation of latency between that which has been and that
which is to come.”
“ The exhibition is sparse in its form. Through the great calm of its presentation there open up vast rooms for thought.
What more can an exhibition achive?”
(Dietlinde Schirmacher, Berlin-Köpenich, 4.03.05)
"It is a powerful piece, like the earth´s navel and we congratulate you”
(Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey on “Earth to earth” in a letter, 26.06.01)
“Her pictures could be many thousands of years old and yet they should retain their significance into the distant future.
This is an example of the innate ability of art to defy time, to work in all directions at one and the same time.”
(Arne Thomassen in Bohusläningen, Sweden, 13.04.00)
“From a jet black, light-absorbing base appear signs like glowing copper and silver. Burnt stone tablets and narrow strips with a
golden rain of signs down the black, as light on a raven’s wing, as fragments of love-words eaten by time. They speak to us.
Not through letters and words, but through traces in time.”
“….like letters about sorrow and hope. Beauty is there to be made and found.”
(Helge Torvund in Stavanger Aftenblad, 18.04.99)
”Barbro Raen Thomassen´s works are radiating
some refined light and thousand years of sorrow.”
(Péter Molnár, 4th International Biennial of Sculptor´s Drawing, Budapest, 1996)
“Quiet, introspective art is her trademark. A vibrating fingertip sensuality...”
(Arild Borgen in Fædrelandsvennen, 07.07.95)
“Our guest Barbro Raen Thomassen from Norway catches our eye immediately with her sculptures by the entrance, not through
colours and blatant symbolism, but with a collection of torsos of welcome simplicity.”
(Mette Fastrup in Thisted Dagblad, DK, 10.04.95)
“Through the simplest of means, three human torsos spread across the broken stonefloor, the artist from Lillesand has succeeded
in creating a strong and importunate picture of the war’s biggest cruelities.”
(Gunvald Opstad in Klassekampen, 11.07.95)