Category: march 2019

The Illustrious R. Crumb

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Robert Crumb is an unblinking witness to and graphic critic of the dysfunctional strangeness of the Disunited States. He is peerless in that regard because there’s simply no one like him and no one is as ”far out”. – Robert Storr

Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R. Crumb

David Zwirner Gallery, New York

March 07th, 2019

NORDIC IMPRESSIONS

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CONTEMPORARY ART FROM ÅLAND, DENMARK, FINLAND, GREENLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN

Ólafur Elíasson (b. 1967, Denmark)
The Island Series, 1997
56 framed C-prints

For The Island Series, Eliasson photographed the islands that surround Iceland. Sequenced according to island size, the photographs are reminiscent of the faithful depictions of nature – and its elements of water, sky, light, and colour – by the 19th-century Danish Golden Age painters.

Poul Gernes (b. 1925, Denmark; d. 1996, Sweden)
Untitled, 1965
Enamel on masonite
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter (b. 1969, Iceland)
Nervelings I-V, 2018
Synthetic hair and rope

Brooklyn-based artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, who goes by Shoplifter, experiments with artificial hair that she dyes into a rainbow of hypernatural colours and arranges into organic sculptures or massive landscapes.

Outi Pieski (b. 1973, Finland)
Crossing Paths, 2014
Wood and threads
Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970, Norway)
Golden Tears, 2002
Colour coupler (chromogenic) print mounted on aluminum
Eggert Pétursson (b. 1956, Iceland)
Untitled, 2012-2013
Oil on canvas
Henry Wuorila-Stenberg (b. 1949, Finland)
Self-Portrait, 2015
Charcoal on paper
Tori Wrånes (b. 1978, Norway)
Ancient Baby
PANAM plaque embedded in the walkway
Library Way

One of the 96 bronze plaques on East 41st Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues.

From an exhibition at Scandinavia House on 58 Park Avenue, February through June 2019.

March 5th, 2019