Ragnar Kjartansson

Reykjavik Iceland 1976, lives and works in Reykjavik

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Repent
2020
line etching, aquatint, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching, spit bite aquatint, roulette and burnishing on paper
36 x 26 cm (25 parts)
2020.RK.03 1-25

Kjartansson’s suite of twenty-five etchings is a collection of self-contained vignettes; poetic, comical, sometimes absurd scenes combining image and text. He collects scribbles and words in a notebook he is carrying with him wherever he goes. In his etchings, Kjartansson transfers the carefree, spontaneous attitude of his scribbles into permanent traces on copper. These are personal moments transferred into the medium of the multiple.