Louisiana poster with the work, The End (pink), released in conjunction with Louisiana’s 2023 solo exhibition with Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976), Epic waste of Love and Understanding . Kjartansson has long since distinguished himself internationally as one of contemporary art’s most important voices, and Louisiana’s exhibition contains both new and older works in a multitude of media, from drawing and painting to performance and large, spatial works with film and music.
The motif here comes from Kjartansson’s international breakthrough work, The End – Venice, 2009. The work consists of 144 portraits of a young man in Speedo swimming trunks, which Kjartansson painted during a six-month performance for the Venice Biennale in 2009, where he represented Iceland.
