New. First Edition. Hard Cover, 31 x 25 cm. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Original shrink-wrap, an unopened, new copy. Edited by Christian Schoen. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Icelandic Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia from June 7 to November 22, 2009. Illustrated in color and black & white. Texts by Adam Budak, Caroline Corbetta, Cecilia Alemani, Florencia Malbran, Markus Thor Andresson, and Dorothee Kirch.
"A prolific performance artist and musician whose genre-bending installation-performances include music, video, painting, drawing, and sculptural elements that careen between emotional extremes. Ragnar Kjartansson's work is a cross-over between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, painting and music. He produces large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects, and the production requires the collaboration of several participants: Actors, musicians, fellow artists, friends, and even family members. Experimenting with the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions, revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation" (Publisher).