Louisiana Poster with the work, The End (man on jetty), 2009 published in connection with Louisiana’s solo exhibition in 2023 with the Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976), Epic waste of Love and Understanding . Kjartansson has long since made his mark internationally as one of the most important voices in contemporary art, and Louisiana’s exhibition includes both new and older works in a variety 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.
