Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road, N1
020.7336.8109
This event has passed.
-
John Kørner, Morten, 2008, Courtesy Victoria Miro Gallery
- When
-
26 Nov 2008 – 24 Jan 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
- Where
-
Tube: Angel, Old Street
- Price
- Links
War Problems, John Kørner's ambitious new exhibition at Victoria Miro, takes over the entire gallery with 16 large-scale canvases. The artist departs from the abstract landscapes he is best known for to instead depict the deaths of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan. Each watered-down acrylic canvas imagines the location where a soldier fell, based solely on media coverage. In this way, War Problems adds a modern dimension to the tragedy of war by exploring the perspective of the ordinary citizen, bombarded by gruesome imagery in the safety of their own living room.
