Contemporary, naturalistic oil on canvas painting by the Danish painter Bente Ørum, 2017. 
 
You can be very alone when you are together with other people. And when these other people are your parents you can be the loneliest 7-year-old boy in the world.
Nino is a boy aged somewhere between 6 and 18 in Bente Orum’s universe. He symbolizes the challenges of growing up in a difficult world - often not so different from the challenges of being an adult.
 
About the artist: 

Bente Ørum's paintings are figurative, often with a hint of surrealism. The paintings deal with people, their feelings and the challenges they have, the problems they meet. It is important for Bente Ørum that the painting causes the viewer to wonder what is really going on? The painting tells a story, but is not unambiguous. Different viewers will read different stories into the painting and there is no one story that is correct. Bente Ørum has painted since 2005 and has exhibited at different places, in 2018 at Porsebakken and Art-Nordic in Copenhagen.