A nude male reclines on a rock in this smaller version of Elmgreen & Dragset’s “Han”, which is permanently installed on the waterfront in front of Kronborg Castle in Elsingore, Denmark. The sculpture is a masculine interpretation of the historic bronze statue, “The Little Mermaid” by Edvard Eriksen. By replicating the reclining bodily position, the pensive look and longing gaze of its female counterpart, The Other He is confronting some of the conventions of heroic and masculine gesture in public and commemorative sculptural traditions. The Other He initiates further commentary on contemporary tendencies relating to differences in gender and perhaps, more broadly, ‘otherness’ itself within the history of art.
Upcoming exhibitions: 2021: Elmgreen & Dragset, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (solo); Animals in Art, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark (group); Wände/Walls, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (group); Lustwarande ’20 – Stations, Park de Oude – Tilburg, The Netherlands (group) Selected solo exhibitions: 2020: Short Story, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany; 2019: Bent Pool, Pride Park, Miami Beach Convention Center, FL, USA Collections: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Resin, white matt lacquer, MDF, high-gloss black lacquer 155 × 37 × 37 cm Ed. 3/3 + 1AP
Starting bid: € 20.000.– ( Low estimate: € 40.000 - High estimate: € 60.000 )
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Category:: Contemporary Art
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