Ragnar Kjartansson: The End

by Cecilia Alemani, Christian Schoen (Editor), Markus Andresson

Born in 1976, 2009 Venice Biennale artist Ragnar Kjartansson is a prolific performance artist and musician whose genre-bending installation/performances include music, video, painting, drawing and sculptural elements that careen between emotional extremes.

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Geoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I REALLY REALLY liked a GOO(D) AMOUnTs of Ragnar's eXHibit at the Hirshhorn - BUT NOT 5 STARS LIkED -- that's a lotta likin' as chubby checkers used to say - WHAT COULD ITA USED?? I dunno some more analogue synths I guess. Also his woods paintings sucked. These in Venice were good an FUNNY THO. I liked them swim trousers. How many beers he drink, like, in toto as Cicero might say? THE NUMBERs OF GRAINS OF SAND ON THE AFRICAN DUNES or THE STARS IN THE SKY IN TOTO AS CICERO MIGHT SAY (in beers)? And I'm not even counting cigarettes ... But the best room was the last one called THE VISITORS : that one grew and grew until you felt the UNIvERsE itself shaking the skin off its skeleton [for real] could make a grown man grow misty ... There was also a lady spinning real slow like on a pedestal playing an E MINOR chord for what seemed like forever and her amp was swell. Death and children, am I right? The kids' explanations for death made me think they'd never spent ample time beside a corpse. THERE'S MY REVIEW!