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15/9/2007

More than the World

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo

Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and others

With the ambitious title “More than the World”, we welcome you to an exhibition of works by some of the foremost artists of our time. Several of them belong to an American art-milieu from the 1980’s that concerned itself particularly with the relationship between reality and representation. In an age when direct experience has been displaced by simulation through diverse media, many artists react by transferring already-existing materials and, in various ways, appropriating them as the material from which to create their own works. Although, from a traditional modernistic perspective, one can argue that nothing new is added when an artist—say Richard Prince—uses pictures from advertising campaigns in his works, we, in this exhibition, would like to show how these artists take their point of departure from the reality of their own popular culture, and create works that interrogate the artwork’s originality. We will see how Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and others use appropriation and simulation, and through these means, allow for a wider, more nuanced understanding of our own times.

Astrup Fearnley Museum
Dronningensgate 4 - Oslo

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