Ragnar Kjartansson - epic waste of love and understanding
Widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art, Icelandic performance and multimedia artist Ragnar Kjartansson takes a loving yet critical look at Western culture. His longform video installations explore the dynamics of repetition, often through music, and...
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Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Widely recognized as one of the most exciting and significant voices of contemporary art, Icelandic performance and multimedia artist Ragnar Kjartansson takes a loving yet critical look at Western culture. His longform video installations explore the dynamics of repetition, often through music, and develop into feats of endurance, both physical and emotional. The Guardian deemed his 2012 work The Visitors "the best artwork of the 21st century." Combining quintessential videos such as Me and My Mother and Bliss with lesser-known paintings and sculptures, the retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents three new pieces made for the exhibition (including the title work with the plywood flames burning on the catalog cover) and captures the litany of senses Kjartansson has embraced without hesitation in his 20-year career. New work created for the anthology includes a painted plywood monument to "an epic waste of love and understanding" and a new performance piece titled Scared Man. The richly illustrated catalog includes personal contributions and dialogues in response to each of the artist's works on by leading contemporary artists and scholars. Curator Tine Colstrup discusses A Lot of Sorrow with Marina Abramovi?, and reflects on Terrible, Terrible with Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina. The book proves itself an invaluable guide to Kjartansson’s examination of love, identity, melancholy, masculinity and power |
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| Beschreibung: | Impressum: "The catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ragnar Kjartansson. Epic Waste of Love and Understanding", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 9 June - 22 October 2023" Text by Ragnar Kjartansson, Anne Carson, Roni Horn, Pejk Malinovski, Dóri DNA, Tine Colstrup, Vera Sóley Illugadóttir, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Maria Schnyder, Jonatan Habib Engqvist |
| Beschreibung: | 160 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9788793659681 |