Hushed Birds In a Shrub: About Painting But Not In Painting or The Surface of an Object Which Makes it More Than and Stops it from Being More Than It Is
2019 (English)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) [Artistic work]
Resource type
Mixed material
Physical description [en]
A text inserted between the pages of an illustrated book about skin diseases which was printed in the 1940s. Documentation of a painting installation at Galleri Mejan
Abstract [en]
A text in which 4 objects are described. An octopus, the Ghent Altarpiece, a quilted ball, the Handbook of Diseases of the Skin. And 4 quotations are presented. Newt Gingrich, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert S Macnamara, Slobodan Milosevic. Political leaders responsible for wars. Their descriptions of borders, distinstions, definitions.
A book (Handbook of the Diseases of the Skin) which is described in the text and is integral to the work is in the library of KKH (the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm)
Abstract [en]
13 paintings presented in November2018 at Gallery Mejan
Place, publisher, year, pages
2019.
Keywords [en]
skin, octopus, Jan Van Eyck, Nazis, Ghent Altarpiece, Hubert Van Eyck, Oak, Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, Robert Macnamara, Slobodan Milosevic, Milosevich, Vietnam War, Yugoslav Civil War, Iraq War, Culture Wars, USA, Skin disease, decentral nervous, system, quilting, family, you are not a bee you are a hive, camouflage, birds, quiet, synesthetic, synesthesia, known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, democracy, nationalism, imperialism
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Visual Arts
Research subject
Fine Art
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-465OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kkh-465DiVA, id: diva2:1322787
2019-06-112019-06-112019-06-13Bibliographically approved