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풀장을 닮은 반 고흐의 귀@록펠러센터(4/13-6/3)
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VAN GOGH’S EAR
by ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
April 13 – June 3, 2016
@Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens, Rockefeller Center
Elmgreen & Dragset, Van Gogh’s Ear, 2016. Artists’ rendering. Courtesy the artists and Public Art Fund, NY
www.publicartfund.org
THE ARTISTS
Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961, Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969, Trondheim,
Norway) are based in Berlin and have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. They have
held numerous solo exhibitions in art institutions worldwide, including the Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art, Beijing (2016); PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Statens
Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2014); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014); Victoria and
Albert Museum, London (2013); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2011); ZKM
Museum of Modern Art, Karlsruhe (2010); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
(2009); The Power Plant, Toronto (2006); Serpentine Gallery, London (2006); Tate Modern,
London (2004); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2001). Their work has been included in the Liverpool
(2012), Singapore (2011), Moscow (2011, 2007), Gwangju (2002), São Paulo (2002), Istanbul
(2013, 2001), and Berlin (1998) biennials, and in 2009 they received a special mention for their
exhibition “The Collectors” in the Nordic and Danish Pavilions at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Amongst their most well known works are Prada Marfa (2005)—a full scale replica of a Prada
boutique in the middle of the Texan desert—and Short Cut (2003)—a car and a caravan breaking
through the ground, which was first shown in Milan and now resides in the collection of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The artists were shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize,
Guggenheim Museum, New York (2000) and won the Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin (2002). In 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset were selected for London’s Fourth Plinth
Commission in Trafalgar Square. Elmgreen & Dragset are represented by Galerie Perrotin in
Paris, Hong Kong, and New York; Victoria Miro in London; and Massimo De Carlo in Milan
and London.
