Certificate with installation instructions, signed by the artists, is enclosed.

The artistic work of the Danish-Norwegian artist couple Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset challenge our traditional expectations of what it means to look at art. Reality is placed centre stage through artistic interventions. The duo believes that art is an inseparable part of the world, be it politically, socially, culturally and historically. The viewer is an indispensable part of this process: “We make art, because we simply cannot shut up. Our art speaks to the audience and seeks a dialogue,” says Elmgreen & Dragset about the motivation behind their production. The art is quite simply created, because they have something important to say! ( “The artist is this kind of small shapeless thing between us.” Interview published in Politiken 19 September 2014)

During the 90s, Elmgreen & Dragset moved away from their background in theatre and performance art and towards the paradoxical sculptures and installations, which today are the reason for their success and significant international recognition.

Everyday life’s recognizable and at times useless objects are turned on their head, distorted and changed to become part of new stories and contexts. Most often the installations are site-specific – created either for a specific location or to include the space as an actual part of the work. The work “Powerless Structures. Fig. 89 ”from 2002, which is up for sale at the autumn auction, consists of a paint roller and instructions on how the white paint is to be applied to the given space. In this way the white colour, which is basically perceived as pure and neutral, is used to question the exhibition space - the so-called White Cube’s aesthetic - since no action is neutral, but subject to a wide range of social codes and conventions …

“A structure is a construction that at any time can be replaced with a different structure, and based on this idea our use of the term ”Powerless Structures“ arose – as an invitation to change certain structures. The works are a demonstration of the actual possibility of changing both the social, cultural and architectural structures. Swap them around, replace elements in them and change their meaning, location or design. If we can do this in a small way, well then there is hope that an entire society could change the greater structures. ”(International seminar at KØS, 2011. Quote from speech by Elmgreen & Dragset)

Since Elmgreen & Dragset's installations and sculptures are rarely made in a commercial form, this is a unique opportunity to acquire a more tangible work by the popular duo.