TYV

TYV has emerged as one of Bergen s most exciting and provocative street artists. He loves

paradoxes and contrasts, and with a spray can and a sharp eye for power games, privileges, prejudices and digital influence, he creates art that both fascinates and challenges.

But TYV s art is about more than aesthetics it is a mirror facing the present. Often humorous, always with an underlying serious tone. Whether he sprays on the street, cleans canvases or hijacks old oil paintings, he steals attention and forces the public to see reality with new eyes.

His most talked about work, Halvprinsen, sprayed under Nygårdsbroen, shows Marius Borg Høiby in a split uniform half royal, half criminal. A razor sharp commentary on the incompatible roles he alternates between when it suits him. The sequel, in which mum Mette Marit appears as a cleaner for broken mobile phones, unknown powders and ladies panties, while the crown prince stands behind with his hands in front of his eyes, apparently stepped on someone s toes so hard that it was censored twice. But maybe it will soon be resurrected on a canvas near you?

The name TYV arose when he said he sprayed over old works of art to give them new meaning. An indignant art lover called it theft and TYV could only nod in the affirmative. Several galleries have fought to exhibit his work, but Easy Art was first!