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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Hardcover, 9 x 13 in. / 160 pgs / 91 color / 37 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 29   

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ISBN 9788793659681 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $79.00 GBP £47.00

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Humlebćk, Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 06/09/23–10/22/23

Humlebćk, Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 06/09/23–10/22/23

Humlebćk, Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 06/09/23–10/22/23

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Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding

Edited by Malou Wedel Bruun, Tine Colstrup. Foreword by Tine Colstrup, Poul Erik Třjner. Text by Ragnar Kjartansson, Anne Carson, Roni Horn, Pejk Malinovski, Dóri DNA, Tine Colstrup, Vera Sóley Illugadóttir, Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Maria Schnyder, Jonatan Habib Engqvist. Conversation between Theaster Gates and Ragnar Kjartansson. Interviews by Tine Colstrup with Marina Abramovi?, Maria Alyokhina.

Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding

Surveying the films, installations and performances of the superstar Icelandic artist

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 Scaredman. The richly illustrated catalog includes personal contributions and dialogues in response to each of the artist's works on display 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.
Ragnar Kjartansson (born 1976), a native of Reykjavik, Iceland, studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm. He represented Iceland at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and participated in the 2013 Encyclopedic Palace of the World at the 55th Biennale di Venezia in 2013.


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RAGNAR KJARTANSSON: EPIC WASTE OF LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

ISBN: 9788793659681
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Pub Date: 4/9/2024
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