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THE TIGER AND THE POLARBEAR
Isafjördur, Iceland, "The Battle of
Good and Evil"
Installation: We built a smoking fire in the space, and installed
a dead clay cat and a battered chair. The main elements of the first
exhibition were the ace of Spades and the fire. We had in mind the
story of the death of Dag Hammerskjöld the ex-president of the
United Nations. He died in a planecrash in 1961. On his burned body
the only object found was an Ace of spades, totally intact. There
are more artists that have been inspired by this story, for instance
the great heavy-metal rock band Mötorhead with their song "The
ace of Spades". In it Lenny sings that gambling is for fouls
as himself and that he does not want to live forever, he wants to
burn. The group thinks this is an excellent view point. The exhibiton
is full of metal, like the gunfight (all the walls of the galleri
had bullet-holes in them),fire, smoke and dead cat. From the basement
an Elvis song can be heard as well as sounds of violence and barking.
The installation bears witness to that the battle between good and
evil has taken place in galleri Slunkariki. The question is which
force rules Isafjordur. |
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