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Ragnar Kjartansson: Architecture and Morality
The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
May 26 – July 30, 2016

The CCA presents a solo exhibition by Ragnar Kjartansson that includes iconic videos as well as a new body of paintings.

Ragnar Kjartansson creates durational performances, drawings, paintings, and video installations inspired by stage traditions, film, music, literature, and their histories. In any medium he uses, Kjartansson looks at pretending and staging as ways in which an artist can explore sincere emotion, employing romantic suffering and Weltschmerz. As stated in the catalogue …