Kenneth Goldsmith
Exhibition opening
Thursday 09.06.22
Thursday 09.06.22
In collaboration with Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), we have the pleasure of presenting the exhibition Retyping a Library by the American artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith.
On the opening night, the title and artist list of LIAF 2022 will be announced by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (artistic directors for this year's festival), followed by a tour of the exhibition with Kenneth Goldsmith.
About the exhibition
Retyping a Library is a monumental new intervention by Kenneth Goldsmith for the gallery on the ground floor of Kunstnernes Hus. At the centre of the exhibition space, more than 200 boxes are arranged to form a cube that resembles a minimalist sculpture. Inside each box there is a manuscript on onionskin paper that bears witness to the titanic task the artist has set himself: to copy all the volumes in his library with a typewriter.
About the artist
Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) is an American author, poet and artist. He has published ten poetry books and several essays, including Wasting Time on The Internet (2016) and Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb (2020) about his large digital archive of avant-garde art, UbuWeb.
In 2013, Goldsmith presented the exhibition Printing Out the Internet at the Labor Gallery in Mexico, where he filled a room with ten tons of paper in honour of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. In 2019, he exhibited HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails at the Venice Biennale, where he printed all 62,000 pages of Clinton's controversial emails.
