Group show - Superflex: Superfake/The Parley

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SUPERFLEX: SUPERFAKE/THE PARLEY

While visiting the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona in the US, the Danish art trio SUPERFLEX made a significant discovery. They realized that the celebrated painting, Pioneer and the Indian, attributed to Frederic Remington, was in fact a fake. The ramifications of this discovery are the starting point for this exhibition that sparks a deeper discussion around identity and authenticity from a specifically Scandinavian perspective. Various historical documents are on display together with a film, The Parley, featuring a reenactment of the event portrayed in the famous painting.

Organizer

Lunds Konsthall

Dates

Ended Sep 18 2016

Entrance fee

Free

Location

Mårtenstorget 3

About the artists

The exhibition at Lunds konsthall is specifically spun around this painting’s specific destiny of having been degraded to the status of fake copy and how the well-known American vision of history the painting represents may be transferred to a Swedish context. Swedes migrated in great numbers to the United States a hundred years ago, but what is their relation to American culture today? What is the problematic around this? Which migrations do people in Sweden experience today? How does Sweden address issues of national belonging and identity? How does it define authenticity and value?

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