Har du gjort nogen arabesker idag?
Three-channel video installation (33:14min loop)
2019
From the exhibition Arkivets Arabesk, Kunstnernes Hus
All photos: KUNSTDOK / Istvan Virag
Produced with the support of Kulturrådet
Excerpt from exhibition text:
Two pigs last seen in the Danish artist Asger Jorn’s article “The Path of Poetry” (1951) embark on an educational journey through Guttormsgaard’s Archive. Along the way, they find the world’s first illustrated reading book for children and tobacco boxes made by Soviet prisoners of war in Norway during World War II, and with the help of La Linea, they acquire the typographical letters and ornaments developed by his compatriot Giambattista Bodoni. The entire journey was filmed and animated in two animation boxes, which, together with a chalkboard and alphabet stencils, form the stage for the pigs’ drawing school.
Title eng: Have you made any arabesques today?
