Ragnar Kjartansson - Scared Man

Ragnar Kjartansson's performance Bangemand is available here as a Louisiana Edition – an original print in an edition of 45 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.

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Performance'n Scared Man b live created for Louisiana's 2023 exhibition with Kjartansson , Epic Waste of Love and Understanding. A man in a tuxedo is perched on a cornice with his back to the wall. The motif is a familiar Hollywood cliché: Is he fleeing? Is he falling? As always with the world-renowned Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson, there is also Scared man as much a self-portrait as it is a bid for a distillate of the ongoing debates about masculinity, power and privilege.

Ragnar Kjartansson drew a model for this performance, which is now available as a Louisiana Edition – an original print in an edition of 45 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.

Kjartansson's emotional and political engagement with the world is reflected in his works. They contain his loving, humorous and critical dialogue with Western culture – our self-understanding, successes, clichés, failures, melancholy, confusion, hope and absurdities. Nuanced reflections on masculinity appear in both the work and the exhibition in a thematic range from existential pain to aggressive world politics, which also includes the Danish colonialization of the artist's homeland, Iceland.

The works vibrate ambiguously and precisely between existential and political seriousness and pop lightness. With Kjartansson, one usually has to both cry and laugh. The tension between tragedy and comedy is the artist's signature – for example in the work Me and My Mother from 2015, which many will know from the Louisiana collection.

At Louisiana, the exhibition with Ragnar Kjartansson follows on from major presentations by other key figures in the contemporary art field of multimedia practices, where performance, video, sound and other media are combined, such as Marina Abramović, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg and Arthur Jafa.

See all designs with Ragnar Kjartansson

Dimensions: 47 x 37.5 cm

Edition: 45 copies numbered and signed by the artist
Photogravure from Borch Editions

Supplied without frame.

All prints are packed and shipped in special packaging that is very suitable for art transport. You can therefore be completely confident that your lithograph will be delivered to you. However, once you have received your lithograph, we recommend that you unpack the lithograph as soon as possible after receipt.