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The exploration of contemporary masculinity is a thematic focus of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, whose full names are Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. For over three decades, the artists have analysed social and political systems in a way that is as subversive as it is ingenious, skillfully recontextualizing the mainstream.
Bastian THIERY c/o BIRD PRODUCTION visited the two artists in their Berlin studio before the opening of their show at Musée D’Orsay in Paris.
Wallpaper writes : “This playful mindset underpins a major new show at Musée d’Orsay in Paris – which, for the first time in its 38-year history, is hosting a contemporary exhibition in its central sculpture nave. ‘L’Addition’, which opened on 15 October 2024, considers the effects of recontextualization alongside a figurative rethinking of classical motifs, with Elmgreen & Dragset’s works taking their cue from the 19th-century sculptures in the museum’s permanent collection.”
In this exhibition, too, the question of how...
