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I Caused Dreams Which Caused Death. This is my Crime. |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 09 September, 18:00Bugada & Cargnel, 75019 [map]Gardar EIDE EINARSSON
For his first exhibition at Bugada & Cargnel gallery, Norwegian artist living in New York City,
Gardar Eide Einarsson, presents a set of new pieces – paintings, photographs and sculpture – through which he explores, in a wry and minimalist way, society's dubious underbelly.
Whether he is transferring book covers into large black and white paintings from literature, themselves taking after post-war abstract painting, or enlarging unexpectedly conceptual pictures taken from police instruction leaflets, or reproducing portraits of petty criminals published in newspapers and verging on modernism, or recreating a home-made barbecue grill from the American South, Eide Einarsson revisits a fascinating iconography, whilst questioning his own fascination.
