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Umfangreiche und detaillierte Darstellung der Videokunst des jungen dänischen Künstlers

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Jesper Just (geb. 1974 in Kopenhagen) zieht mit seinen visuell verführerischen Videoarbeiten international Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Die Choreografie und Ästhetik seiner Werke stehen dem Kinospielfilm in Perfektion und Professionalität näher als der Dokumentation. Auch inhaltlich reflektiert der Künstler in seinen, zunächst im klassischen Filmformat etwa auf 8, 16 oder 35 mm aufgenommenen, dann digitalisierten Videos die Welt des Kinos: Liebe, Sexualität und Hollywood. Er spielt mit den suggestiven und gewissermaßen hypnotisierenden Elementen großer Kunstwerke und erschafft zugleich präzise, hochsensible Porträts menschlicher Emotionen. Im Vorfeld seiner Teilnahme an der Biennale von Venedig 2013 präsentiert die Publikation den bis heute umfassendsten Einblick in das Oeuvre des Künstlers, ausgehend von dessen neuer Arbeit This is a Landscape of Desire und begleitend zur musealen Gesamtschau.
Ausstellung: HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art 26.1.-14.4.2013

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Jesper Just ( 1974 in Copenhagen) has won international acclaim for his visually beguiling videos. Preferring a process more aligned with the cinematic to a low-fi aesthetic or documentary one, Just creates choreographed and grand works of art. His productions makes use of mesmerizing elements of grand landscape painting as well as a hypersensitive and acute portrayal of human emotions. Preempting Justs participation in the 55th Venice Biennale 2013, this publication, the most comprehensive and detailed to date, takes its point of departure from the artists eponymous new work This Is a Landscape of Desire before focusing on his wider oeuvre. In conjunction with his exhibition at HEARTHerning Museum of Contemporary Art, the book surveys the career of the acclaimed artist and features essays by Caroline Corbetta, curator of the exhibition, and Michael Bank Christoffersen, among others. Exhibition schedule: Herning Museum of Contemporary Art January 26April 14, 2013

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Jesper Just ( 1974 in Copenhagen) has won international acclaim for his visually beguiling videos. Preferring a process more aligned with the cinematic to a low-fi aesthetic or documentary one, Just creates choreographed and grand works of art. His productions makes use of mesmerizing elements of grand landscape painting as well as a hypersensitive and acute portrayal of human emotions. Preempting Just s participation in the 55th Venice Biennale 2013, this publication, the most comprehensive and detailed to date, takes its point of departure from the artist s eponymous new work This Is a Landscape of Desire before focusing on his wider oeuvre. In conjunction with his exhibition at HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, the book surveys the career of the acclaimed artist and features essays by Caroline Corbetta, curator of the exhibition, and Michael Bank Christoffersen, among others.
Exhibition schedule: Herning Museum of Contemporary Art January 26 April 14, 2013

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