Runo Lagomarsino   bio           e-mail   During the past several years, Runo Lagomarsino’s work has focused on how today’s political and social environment has developed through different discursive forms of representation, which in turn creates symbols and metaphors from which we read and reread history and society. In El Basilisco, Runo Lagomarsino presents two works; Extended arguments and Comprar mapas (Buy maps). Extended arguments consists of two video pieces that explore the relationship between silence and violence. One, Untitled, is based on documentary footage from a football match held in Chile’s capital city of Santiago in 1973. The other, Notions of conflict. Dance of the Pinñata explores human interaction through the utilization of a traditional artifact, the piñata. Together they explore the boundaries between visible and invisible practices of violence, and between different forms of resistance, including, for example, absence. Comprar mapas is an installation which discusses the paradoxical rhetoric and the much debated politics of the G8 countries. Its starting point is a wall drawing constructed both as a geometric model and a banner. The drawing, both thematically and physically, serves as the framework for different pieces such as photography and sculpture.

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	Runo Lagomarsino   Lund, Suecia (1977) lives and works in Malmö. Education: Malmö Art Academy (MA) and Academy of Fine Art Valand, Gotenburg. Recent shows include: "Där uppgifter saknas beror det på att situationen är oklar" (Lack of information is due to an unclear situation) Elastic, Malmö (solo), Sthlm Art Fair, Stockholm, "Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark", Aarhus, with Johan Tiren, "In my dreams Europe is always less than a metre" Gallery Peep, Malmö (solo), "Go" Liquidación Total, Madrid, "I am a curator" Chisenhale Gallery, London, "Permanent Revolution / Open Studios" Iaspis, Stockholm.       top