Magnus Bärtås
The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories
27 Feb - 17 Apr 2016
MAGNUS BÄRTÅS
The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories
27 February - 17April 2016
In the spring of 2016 shows Göteborgs Konsthall a solo exhibition by Magnus Bärtås, one of Sweden's most established artists. In The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories brings together brand new works with a selection from Bärtås older production. The exhibition relates in part to the size of biography, both as individual life stories and larger fragments of stories.
The exhibition brings together two major new works, the film The Strangest Stranger and image poem Officials participants citizen individuals, with a selection of older production.
The Strangest Stranger
The film The Strangest Stranger is a depiction of the Johnnie Walker (actually Joni Waka) life - a jew man in Tokyo and role model for a character in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. Johnnie Walker sees himself as the last of "the ancient Jews" in Japan when all of the generations of Jews who lived in Japan since the early 1900s has left the country. In his daily life in Tokyo says he constantly his story to strangers he meets on the street and in different social contexts.
The experimental documentary The Strangest Stranger is based on the artist's encounters with Johnnie Walker for nearly 20 years. The protagonist absorbs fiction in his life and the engineer himself. In a situation of social pressure, he seems to ignore the dominant regime, while he uses his position to the henna gaijin ( "the strangest stranger") as a place of freedom to create a family comedy.
The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories
27 February - 17April 2016
In the spring of 2016 shows Göteborgs Konsthall a solo exhibition by Magnus Bärtås, one of Sweden's most established artists. In The Strangest Stranger and Other Stories brings together brand new works with a selection from Bärtås older production. The exhibition relates in part to the size of biography, both as individual life stories and larger fragments of stories.
The exhibition brings together two major new works, the film The Strangest Stranger and image poem Officials participants citizen individuals, with a selection of older production.
The Strangest Stranger
The film The Strangest Stranger is a depiction of the Johnnie Walker (actually Joni Waka) life - a jew man in Tokyo and role model for a character in Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. Johnnie Walker sees himself as the last of "the ancient Jews" in Japan when all of the generations of Jews who lived in Japan since the early 1900s has left the country. In his daily life in Tokyo says he constantly his story to strangers he meets on the street and in different social contexts.
The experimental documentary The Strangest Stranger is based on the artist's encounters with Johnnie Walker for nearly 20 years. The protagonist absorbs fiction in his life and the engineer himself. In a situation of social pressure, he seems to ignore the dominant regime, while he uses his position to the henna gaijin ( "the strangest stranger") as a place of freedom to create a family comedy.