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"Kill
Me Before I Do It Myself"
Friday november 23th at 7.00 p.m. in Via Bocconi 9, Milan, it will
open the solo show of the norwegian artist Bjarne
Melgaard. During the opening there will be a performance with the
artist and the musician Frost.
Bjarne Melgaard
comes to Milan bringing us the fascinating and perverse world of
scandinavian Black Metal music. Infact the theme of the exhibition
will be this musical movement and its context: the dark aesthetics and
its poetical aspects, its drama, its origin in the lower classes, its
reference to norwegian paganism.
The
gallery, completely painted in black and lighted only by torches, will
be the set for a performance where Frost (drums player of Satyricon,
the most rappresentative black metal band in Norway) will practice
some autolesionistic actions: pagan rites will mix with aggressive
behaviors tipical of a generation grown up under the uniformity
imposed by norwegian socialdemocracy.
During
the performance an american troupe will film some scenes for the movie
"Until the light takes us", a project that follows Melgaard everywhere he makes a show related to the Dark culture.
In
the gallery there will be exhibited also some drawings, canvases and
scolptures which will develop and make more clear the themes and the
atmospheres of the performance and the personal voyage that the young
norwegian artist in making inside a hidden and suggestive world.
Bjarne Melgaard
was born in 1968, in Sidney, Australia. Lives and works in Oslo.
Selected
shows: 2002: Kunsthalle, Kiel, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; 2001:
Galerie Krinzinger, Wien;
2000: Alleged Galleries,
NY; Civil Disobedience,
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover; 5th Biennial of Lyon; 1999:
Umwelt, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Moon over Islam, Stedelijk Museum for Aktuele Kunst, Gent; 1998: Soft
Core, Arkipelag TV, Historical Museum, Stockholm ; XXIV Biennial
of Sao Paulo; Manifesta 2, Luxemburg.
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