Gaby

hey dum-dums, freakin move

Morandi worked in semi-monastic isolation in Bologna in the middle years of the 20th century, painting the same sets of jugs and vessels over and over again. Kjartansson’s film A Lot of Sorrow documents, in real-time, a similar act of determination; a performance orchestrated by Kjartansson at MOMA PS1 in 2013 in which he asked the American rock band The National to play their song Sorrow repeatedly for six hours straight. Described by the New York Times as “Minimalist in structure: yet unimaginably expansive” it is a masterpiece of endurance art – soothingly melancholic and strangely hypnotic. 

Miguel for The Title Magazine

It’s the 2017 Big Mood.