Jone Kvie (b. 1971, Stavanger) lives and works in Naples and Stavanger. His practice as a sculptor is characterised by a fascination with existential questions, and by an intention to extend the notion of art towards contemplation over the world’s being, and what it means to be human in it. Our will to know and interpret the “natural world” is reflected in Kvie’s attention to cultural interpretations, archetypes and myths, and finally in his choices of themes, form, materials and titles. Often taking on the unfathomable and unknown as his subject matter, his sculptures may be read both as reflections on our attempts to understand and as physical manifestations of the ideas that are created in these attempts. Mental and abstract conceptions become objects with independent existence, often appearing surprisingly recognisable in their firm presence.