Ragnar Kjartansson: The End

This weekend I had the pleasure to see the interesting Kjartansson’s exhibition in Venice, entitled The End,  a tableau vivant of the artist and his model that last for the entire six-months of the Biennale, along with a monumental video and music installation.

Presented in the Palazzo Michiel dal Brusà, a 14th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal near the Rialto, which has served as the Icelandic Pavilion since 2007.

The live performance and a video and sound piece presented as a loop in a room-sized installation, are constructed around the notion of an exentended moment.

For the performance, Kjartansson works everyday in a painting studio installed in the exhibition space overlooking the Gran Canal, where visitors can observe him painting the image of a young modeling for him. When one painting is finished he starts working on another; the repeated works gradually fill the space over the course of the six-month exhibition.

Kjartansson is joined in the performance by the fellow artist, Pall Haukur Bjornsson, who serves as his model.

The space where they perform is very coziness, from the big picture windows the Gran Canal that give to the perform a special and unique mark.

Some picture about this art perform in my gallery.