Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset got to know each other when he was a Danish writer and she was studying theatre in Norway. Since they met in 1955, they have always worked together, becoming one of the most famous artistic couples of the recent years. They literally ‘play’ with art, generating bizarre contradictions: situations that make us smile or which simply startle us. Their works are not difficult to understand, and do not require too much time. Elmgreen and Dragset’s images trigger an intuitive reaction immediately in our heads. For them, every object, even banal ones, have a magic potential: it is necessary to look at it from a different perspective, eliminate the context and reverse the meaning. By doing so, the two artists reinvent a new - absurd, surreal and apparently illogical – world. Who, looking at their famous trampoline, has not exclaimed: ‘WOOW”?
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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset got to know each other when he was a Danish writer and she was studying theatre in Norway. Since they met in 1955, they have always worked together, becoming one of the most famous artistic couples of the recent years. They literally ‘play’ with art, generating bizarre contradictions: situations that make us smile or which simply startle us. Their works are not difficult to understand, and do not require too much time. Elmgreen and Dragset’s images trigger an intuitive reaction immediately in our heads. For them, every object, even banal ones, have a magic potential: it is necessary to look at it from a different perspective, eliminate the context and reverse the meaning. By doing so, the two artists reinvent a new - absurd, surreal and apparently illogical – world. Who, looking at their famous trampoline, has not exclaimed: ‘WOOW”?
