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Henrik Olesen
How Do I Make Myself a Body?
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Edited by: Jacob Fabricius, Nikola Dietrich
Texts by: Nikola Dietrich, Jacob Fabricius, Lars Bang Larsen, Judith Hopf, Ariane Müller, Antonin Artaud
Contributions: Kurt Schwitters, Antonin Artaud
Graphic Design: Martin Johansson, Henrik Olesen
English
April 2011,
212
Pages, 0 Ills., 187 Photos
softcover
1mm x
1mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-2842-3
| Olesen addresses the stigmatization and repression of homosexuality
Henrik Olesen (*1967 in Esbjerg) is one of Denmark’s most prominent contemporary artists. This publication features a retrospective selection of his works from the past fifteen years. In his collages, demontages, and spatial interventions, with a focus on homosexuality Olesen calls the power structures in our society and historiography into question. He draws on both contemporary as well as historical material from a wide variety of different fields, such as architecture, law, economics, the natural sciences, and art history. Olesen incorporates the homosexual body into spaces and interiors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, calling attention to the general repression of homosexuality as well as the ways it has been misleadingly represented by history.
Exhibition schedule: Malmö Konsthall, December 4, 2010–January 30, 2011 | MoMA, Projects Gallery, New York, February 9–May 23, 2011 | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, May 14–September 11, 2011
Exhibition schedule: Malmö Konsthall, December 4, 2010–January 30, 2011 | MoMA, Projects Gallery, New York, February 9–May 23, 2011 | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, May 14–September 11, 2011
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