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»» Kling & Bang's transplanted bar at Frieze, London, got a lot of attention
»» Erling Klingenberg in Frankfurt
»» Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson shortlisted for Dutch Prix de Rome
»» Sequences 2008 Time Based Art Festival: We have the videos
»» Helgi Þórsson exhibits at Gelerie van Gelder
»» Dorothée Kirch and Markús Þór Andrésson to curate Venice exhibition
»» Ragnar Kjartansson now represented in New York by Luhring Augustine

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Features

Jón Proppé:
Weathering the Storm
Reflections on Iceland's economic crisis and its impact on art.

Shauna Laurel Jones interviews Birta Guðjónsdóttir:
101 Projects in Reykjavík
A new project space opens with a string of exhibitions and other activities.

Erling Klingenberg makes an Exhibition of Himself
The Klingenberg Case in Frankfurt

“It’s hard to be an artist trapped in a rock star body,” Erling Klingenberg states, referring to celebrity culture and the role of the artist. In fact, the artist himself – his ego and his alter ego – is the core of his ongoing exhibition in Gallery Wildwechsel in Frankfurt. The life-size wax replica of the artist points at another spot and through this gesture redirects the question of originality to anything but the artwork itself – without success, as everything in this context refers back to the artist as the origin of ideas. But the artist also offers visitors to slip into his identity as he offers them paper masks of his own face, with the result that it might be even harder to be a viewer trapped in an artist identity trapped in a rock star body.

The show will be on until January 10, 2009.

 

LIST Icelandic Art News. Page last updated 18 December 2008. Texts and images copyright © 2008 by the authors. For inquiries and contact information see about us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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