Exhibition
Morten Viskum - The Hand With The Golden Ring - Vegas Gallery
Vegas gallery presents `The Hand with the Golden Ring ‘ the first London solo exhibition of the Norwegian artist Morten Viskum.
Born in 1965 he is considered one of the most provocative and controversial contemporary artists from Scandinavia.
The artist’s unconventional choice of materials, themes and artistic expressions often seduces and invites the viewers to experience a range of unexpected emotions, causing shock, amazement and uncontrollable curiosity.
´The Hand with the Golden Ring’ is curated by the Dutch art critic and collection advisor Pier Vegner Tosta, it will expose Morten Viskum latest painting series and for the delight of the artist´s fans and causing astonishment for those yet new to his art, the artist has confirmed to do a live performance during the evening of the private view; the thrill is caused by the fact a severed dead hand will be used live as a paintbrush, demonstrating how the new series of paintings have been created.
Morten Viskum´s artistic production forges stronger relations between art and a society, in the presence of his art one can´t avoid being taken away from the comfortable zones, his works form catalysts where the morbid gives space to relevance, the infamy to deference and reminds us that there is nothing fictitious about Death, neither about Nature.
