Pipilotti Rist – Mercy Garden Retour Retour (2014)

Louisiana poster with a still image of the video work, Mercy Garden, Retour Retour, (2014), by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962). Rist is one of the biggest and most popular names in contemporary art. The poster was released in 2019 in connection with Louisiana's major exhibition, 'Pipilotti Rist - Open My Light'.

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Color, nature, body and desire seem to merge when Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist gets extremely close with his camera and creates his sensory-rich, intimate and sometimes disturbing video works.

At the 2019 exhibition, the internationally renowned contemporary artist transformed the entire south wing of Louisiana into a colorful and sensory-rich universe. The work Mercy Garden, Retour Retour, was projected in large format onto an end wall, because Pipilotti Rist thinks of video as both painting and space, and has said: “For me, video is like a painting on glass in motion.”

For Louisiana, the museum's guests - and for Pipilotti Rist herself - the exhibition was the culmination of a long and very special relationship. Rist feels so attached to Louisiana that it was the first museum in the world to acquire one of her works for its collection.

She was actually christened Elisabeth Charlotte Rist, but already at a young age she took the artist name, Pipilotti, as a tribute to Astrid Lindgren's anarchic and free-thinking Pippi Longstocking. Rist's art can seem both challenging and provocative, but also full of joy and humor.

Dimensions: W: 64.5 x H: 43 cm

Note: The poster is sold as shown in the first picture, i.e. without a frame.