until Sunday January 10 2016

Palais de Tokyo - Site de Crèation contemporaine
T : +33 (0)1 47 23 54 01
13, avenue du Prèsident Wilson
75116 Paris
France

Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first solo show in France of the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (born in 1976, lives and works in Reykjavik) whose singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. The exhibition portrays everyday desires, longing for the transcendent, blurring the boundary between mundane and sublime.

The exhibition project conceived by Ragnar Kjartansson for Palais de Tokyo follows a meaningful series of experiences inspired by World Light (1937-1940), the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’ well-known four volume epic novel. Considered as the masterpiece of this leading figure of 20th century Icelandic literature, as well as some sort of bible for a lot of artists in the country, the book tells the tragic and eminently romantic story of a cursed poet.