Photo blog of the exhibition Paul Osipow: New Paintings at Galleri Riis, Oslo, on view through October 6, 2013.

The gallery press release states that Osipow's new work "returns to one of his favoured themes the last decade, the study of miscellaneous ruins from Ancient Greece. In 10 medium to large size paintings in oil on canvas and 12 smaller works on paper, based on his own photos and sketches, he explores two different views within the ruin of a house in Olympia. As usual he attacks the motif with boldness and flair, resulting in a wide range of expressions evoking the crude cartoonlike dystopia of Philip Guston as well as quaint yet elegant and refined interplay of form, colour and texture."