October 14, 2016 – January 8, 2017
This exhibition is the first comprehensive mid-career survey of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (b. Reykjavik, 1976) and charts his wide-ranging practice across film, performance, painting, and drawing. Kjartansson’s work draws from a varied history of stage traditions, film, music, and literature. His performances, video installations, drawings, and paintings explore the boundary between fact and fiction, as well as constructs of myth and identity. Donning various guises, which include that of a knight, a Hollywood crooner, and the incarnation of death, Kjartansson both celebrates and derides the romanticized figure of the artist as cultural hero.
Music, repetition, and endurance are key ingredients in Kjartansson’s video and performance works. Among the highlights of this survey is his celebrated video installation The Visitors, 2012, which comprises a series of nine life-size video tableaux.
The "Women in E":
From http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/hirshhorn-debuts-ragnar-kjartansson-s-first-major-us-survey-exhibition-oct-14-0
In a Hirshhorn first, visitors will be able to experience a live performance of Kjartansson’s monumental “Woman in E” (2016) every day of the 12-week run of the exhibition. The work features a single, sequin-clad woman strumming an E-minor chord endlessly, rotating on a pedestal in a gold-tinseled room, a performance that walks a characteristic line between kitsch and earnest commentary on feminine objectification. A rotating cast of Washington-area musicians will play the “Woman.”
From http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/ragnar-kjartansson-exhibit/#detail=/bio/women-in-e/&collection=ragnar-kjartansson-exhibit
Women in E
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