Ariesson
The artist standing before a tall unfinished plaster panel in a dim studio

He does not talk about the work. He turns the camera on and starts.

Fifteen years of panels, filmed in the same room, under the same single lamp.

Portrait of the painter in a pigment-stained apron in his dim studio

The artist

A painter who kept the camera running

Ariesson works alone, in daylight when there is any and under one warm lamp when there isn't. He grinds his own pigment, mixes plaster by weight, and builds each panel over weeks rather than days.

The films started as a way to remember what he had done. They stayed because people kept asking to see the part nobody usually shows — the mistake, the scrape-back, the hour where nothing works.

Born
Trondheim, 1984
Based
OslNorway
Media
Pigment, plaster, ink, linen
Camera
One fixed lens, no crew


0+Studio Films Recorded
0.0kHours Of Footage
0+Panels Completed
0Exhibitions Held
0Years In The Room
Hands pressing pigment into a plaster surface, macro detail
A layered paint surface being scraped back, macro texture

Burn,LAYER,SCRAPE,GLAZE,REPEAT.

Nothing is added that cannot be taken back off.