At Kunstnernes Hus in Wergelandsveien and in the private gallery Arco in Bygdøy allé, it is Arve Hovig who is remembered with retrospective exhibitions, five years after he died, barely 55 years old in 1999. The 60th anniversary thus becomes clear and solid, with a very full presentation of his paintings in the two exhibitions that both open tomorrow; in Kunstnernes Hus, it takes place in the large Left upper light hall. Arve Hovig grew up on his mother's family farm, Bruem in Ogndal. The family broke away from this environment relatively early due to the constant commissions the father, the architect Jan Inge Hovig, had around the country, e.g. Tromsdalen Church (The Arctic Cathedral) in Tromsø. Arve Hovig eventually made Oslo his permanent base, but had the cottage in Ogndalen as a permanent connection point to his home region. Here he came i.a. back as Innherred scholarship holder in 1976, participated several times at the Trøndelag exhibition, showed exhibitions and delivered a large decoration to the county hall in Steinkjer. He received his education as an artist in Great Britain from 1967 to 1972, divided between Cardiff, Leeds and London, where in the last three years of his stay abroad he studied at the renowned art academy The Slade. In Norway, he was recognized early on and a key representative of "The New Generation" in the 80s. He made himself, among other things, noted for three-dimensional paintings, through the combination of painting and glass and for his characteristic strong color contrasts, in a constructive abstract style. For the exhibitions, there is a book about Arve Hovig, with text including by Harald Flor and Stein Mehren.

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