Artist Gallery

My artistic practice has during a long time focused on how today’s political and social environment has developed through different historical processes, how this creates metaphors and pictures from which we read history and society. In different ways I analyse and discuss the connections between modernism through colonialism and how this connects to today’s geopolitics. An example could be the debate concerning where the line between a Europe and non-Europe is to be drawn, not only in terms of geography but also in terms of culture.
My work critizies a Eurocentric structure and the rules and measurements that holds it together.
During the last years, especially after the Schengen agreement, the external borders of Europe are getting increasingly difficult to pass. In the theoretical aspect of “fortress europa” the idea of a European identity has been crucial. This discourse connected the identity to the enlightenment, Christianity and renaissance but it also demanded a counterpart, the “non European”, the “non white” and the “clandestine”.

Combining metaphorical and abstract elements within a political subject is a way of keeping the political discourse vivid alongside a visual strength. I also see this abstraction as a position of my work being ambivalent which I find important.

At my stay in Suomenlinna (aug-sep 2004) I focused on a work titled “some says it is according to the stories” a collaborative work with Johan Tirén and Komiteén Flygtninge Under Jorden, for the exhibition Minority Report in Århus, Denmark.

Runo Lagomarsino
Born 1977, lives and works in Malmö

Education
Malmö Art Academy 2001-2003. MA
Academy of Fine Art Valand, Gothenburg 1999-2001. BA

Solo exhibitions
2003
“I suppose that sometimes you have to burn the sky” Krognoshuset Aura, Lund Gallery Mors Mössa, Gothenburg
“In my dreams europe is always less than a metre” Gallery Peep, Malmö 2001
”Schengenland. (Histories that nothing are)” Båstadsgatan 4, Malmö (with Stewen Cutzner)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
“Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, Aarhus, with Johan Tiren
Galleri Arnstedt och Kullgren, Båstad
“Permanent Revolution” / ”Open Studios” Iaspis, Stockholm
2003
“Look Into The Future – And Understand Why” Iaspisgalleriet, Stockholm
“After the future” 10 th Biennal of Moving Images, Centre for Contemporary Images,
Saint-Gervais Genéve (catalogue)
“Go” Liquidacion Total, Madrid
”I am a curator” Chisenhale Gallery, London
”Hot Spot”, Malmö Museum with Johan Tiren
2002
“FFF- more people mediate” collective project during the European summit in Copenhagen.
“Malmö-Oslo 1-0” oVERstation, Passanger, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
“Working title:Memory” Helsingfors, Trondheim och Copenhagen (catalogue)
2001
“To Accept” Folkets Hus, Malmö
2000
”One Minute Video” Amsterdam
“Buchmesse 2000” (with d20099), Leipzig (catalogue)

Selected Bibliography and Publications
2003
“IaspisGalleriet, Stockholm: “Look into the future - and understand why”
Anders Olofsson, Konsten.net
“Lågmält och estetiskt om människor på flykt” Carolina Söderholm, Sydsvenska Dagbladet
“Konst som utforksar gränser” Linda Fagerström, Helsingborgs Dagblad
Fabrik nr 2.03
Socialistisk Debatt nr 1.03
Re/aktion with Johan Tiren
2002
Terezin is like a diamond
For the vivinity of concord, Sophie Tottie

Awards and Grants
Working grant, The Arts Grants Committee 2004
Nifca residencie, Suomenlinna aug-sep 2004
Iaspis residencie, Stockholm okt/03-mars/04
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse 2003


Collections
Malmö Art Museum
Lund City Art Collection






Runo Lagomarsino

Södra Förstadsgatan 94
214 23 Malmö
+46 40 920562
+46 73 775 3962
runo_l@hotmail.com

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