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"The Icelandic performance artist whose name is Ragnar Kjartansson. He often engages with romanticism in his works, but I think in a quite self-aware way. There's always a layer of nostalgia in there, he often uses repetition or duration as part of his performances. I think the way that I became familiar with him was through this performance that he did with the indie rock band, The National, at MoMA PS1 a few years ago. The performance was called A Lot of Sorrow, and he had The National play this song called Sorrow for six hours straight. And it was really beautiful - the lead singer's voice was fading towards the end of the performance and people started coming in and helping him. And it's such a simple gesture in some ways, right? Having a band sing the same thing over and over and over. But when you push repetition that far, it becomes really interesting.
And I think I look up a lot to him in terms of the way that his work is able to really bypass my critical thinking and just get straight to the heart in many ways through these core mechanics of repetition, nostalgia, romanticism. That's something that I've been trying to learn from him. And oftentimes when I get too deep in the research or when things start to feel heady and heavy, I think coming back to someone like him brings me back into a more intuitive space."
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Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An underlying pathos and irony connect his works, with each deeply influenced by the comedy and tragedy of classical theater. The artist blurs the distinctions between mediums, approaching his painting practice as performance, likening his films to paintings, and his performances to sculpture. Throughout, Kjartansson conveys an interest in beauty and its banality, and he uses durational, repetitive performance as a form of exploration.
Kjartansson (b. 1976) lives and works in Reykjavík. Major solo shows include exhibitions at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek; the De Pont Museum, Tilburg; the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Reykjavík Art Museum; the Barbican Centre, London; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington D.C.; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; among others. Kjartansson participated in The Encyclopedic Palace at the Venice Biennale in 2013, Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2014, and he represented Iceland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The artist received the 2019 Ars Fennica Award and was the recipient of the 2015 Artes Mundi’s Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award and Performa’s 2011 Malcolm McLaren Award.
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