Kurt Johannessen

Kurt Johannessen (b.1960) works with performance, books, video, drawing, graphics and installation. He has performed in Europe, Asia and America since the early 80's. His performance often has a poetic and minimalist expression. He exhibited in several places in Norway, including the Bergen Art Museum and Kunstnernes Hus (2007) and Kunstnerforbundet (2016). He works with text and publishes his own artist books. The text works are often short visual, poetic, and sometimes contain humour. He has produced more than 120 books. Since 2013, many of his books (About Something/Om-noko) have been the basis for a series of performance lectures. These books are at the crossroads of philosophy/visual art/poetry/science.

Kurt Johannessen, THE EMBRACEMENT OF VANISHING EXPLANATIONS, Zeth Forlag, 2022 © Kurt Johannessen

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Kurt Johanneseen, THE EMBRACEMENT OF VANISHING EXPLANATIONS, Zeth Forlag, 2022 © Kurt Johanneseen

The book is printed on tracing paper, bound by hand

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cover of the book. The Discoveries of Knowing and Not-Knowing is book no. 1 in the picture book series The Untold series. This series has grown out of The Transparent series, where the book titles and the visual content created a new space. Now the natural elements have been replaced with a journey of colour. The books are printed in riso. This means that all the pages in the books have a more organic expression. Numbered edition, maximum 80.

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