GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON
— Born in Norway in 1814, and having graduated from the art academies of Copenhagen and Düsseldorf, Adolph Tidemand became one of the central figures of Norwegian National Romanticism. A sub-genre of Romanticism, National Romanticism was instumental in crafting an identity of “Norwegian-ness” as tied to the specific nature of the country, thus setting it apart from Denmark and Sweden. The only painting I ever bought, Woodland Interior is a minor work for sure but to me a reminder not only of the pliable nature of national identity but of the political nature of any aesthetics.
Adolph Tidemand,
WOODLAND INTERIOR, 1869
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Gardar Eide Einarsson was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1976. He lives and works in New York. Einarsson’s installations often contain text-based works and props that investigate social transgression and political subversion through their juxtaposition.