I've been following Nerdrum's experiments in rhetoric for some time--he does these
same type of paintings, and they're not kitsch, really, but they have been labeled
so by some, critics for whom this sort of thing is just a bit too "wet," you know,
so Nerdrum seems to be embarked on a reverse cooptation crusade, to snatch his own
work from the critical forum, to abrogate for himself the right to insult them,
which, in the course of the developing rhetoric, becomes a way to valorize them.
It's all very Norwegian. Just like my family . . .
AK
allen bukoff wrote:
> in the email today...
>
> ODD NERDRUM - KITSCH PAINTER
> Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir
> April 7th - May 27th, 2001
>
> Opening his first exhibition in Iceland, Odd Nerdrum ask his critics to
> forgive
> him, since he now considers that he was sailing under a false flag when he
> described himself as an artist.
>
> For full information please click below:
> http://www.e-flux.com/decode.php3?cid=493
>
> Odd Nerdrum�s challenging statements in the media have won him a place in the
> public eye. The paintings in this exhibition demonstrate his developments from
> the mid 1980s, particularly his most recent works in which he provocatively
> labels himself as a kitch painter.
> .................................
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