{Art Viewpoints}
Guided tour of Odd Nerdrum Painter of the North exhibition by Jon Erik Lundberg
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art invites you to a guided tour of the Painter of the North exhibition. Jon Erik Lundberg, the curator of the show, will talk about Odd Nerdrum's works included in the exhibition and the contexts in which they were created. The tour will be in English, translated into Polish.
Nerdrum's work is an attempt to rebuild the relationship with the tradition of painting, interrupted in the second half of the 19th century, when innovation was praised in art and people began to search for it feverishly. One of the dimensions of this search was an avant-garde break with tradition and condemning it as something incompatible with contemporary times. By denying this approach, Nerdrum somehow repairs the avant-garde crack. In 1998, Nerdrum announced the "Kitsch Movement", referring to Hans Reimann's idea that the term "kitsch" was created in the mid-19th century in art studios in Munich in order to reject the earlier culture and thus make room for new art. By identifying with the concept of kitsch, Nerdrum does not so much deprecate his painting as rejects the existence of opposing categories of kitsch and modernity/avant-garde as false poles.
As part of the {Art Viewpoints} series, each exhibition can be viewed many times – each time from a different perspective: that of a curator, an artist, an educator, a volunteer helping with the exhibition, an architect, a psychologist, a journalist, a choreographer, a linguist and many others. There can be an infinite number of perspectives, and the only limitation is the duration of the exhibition.
