return to the north

20 October 2023

Finally, Roger Metto has made a whole series of new edition artworks! The motifs he relentlessly returns to are Kiruna and the surrounding mountain world, which have become a necessity for the pictures that he creates, as well as for himself and his story. The snow-covered peaks and the shimmering birch trunks are depicted, but all with the artist's colorful, playful palette.

Metto is one of our great landscape painters today. His pictures have always evoked the feeling of man's smallness facing a magnificent but also mysterious nature. In his early works, the references were wider, including cowboy romanticism, Rocky Mountains and the dream of the endless expanses of the Wild West. Today, he returns more and more often to the part of the old homestead that remains unchanged and the vast landscape that spreads out like a panorama in all directions around Kiruna. The new series of prints contains portraits of well-known mountains and places such as Kiruna, Katterjokk and Tuolpagorni.

Roger Metto by the workbench in his studio

The printing technique is digital screen printing - a technique that gives fantastic luster and depth of colors. The artworks have been made in collaboration with Edition Vulfovitch. Surfaces and parts of Roger Metto's paintings have been photographed, and have then been used to digitally compose new images. A technique that has given the artist a completely new, exciting palette to work with.

Roger Metto graduated from the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm in 1998 and is today, after years of exhibiting, represented in the collections of all the major Swedish museums. He has made several public commissions.

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One of the paintings that has contributed surfaces to the digital compositions