Fantastic Realities

Daniel Spoerri´s le Feticheur is a true collector´s piece: a fetish hanger made up of strange objects; a hair-raising nature morte, which links him to Duchamp and his way of lifting ordinary things out of their everyday context and into the realm of art. The huge Foodscape, by the Icelandic pop artist Erro, and Kjartan Slettemark´s Staircase, a plastic substance filled with letters, are comments on a 1960s reality coloured by mass culture, mass consumption and industrial mass production. In Pop Art and Neo-Realism, aloof and often inaccessible art is confronted with simple things, popular culture and fantastic realities. Il generale by Enrico Baj provides a political edge. A natural addition to the exhibition is the maquette for SHE, an installation of a giant woman created by Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and P O Ultvedt.

Curator: Cecilia Widenheim