NO JOKE. 2016
PUBLISHED IN 2016 BY MÖREL BOOKS ON THE OCCASION OF THE EXHIBITION NO JOKE BY ROGER BALLEN & ASGER CARLSEN AT V1 GALLERY, COPENHAGEN & DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, BERLIN.
CASE BOUND WITH FABRIC AND TIPPED IN IMAGE WITH TWO COLOR FOIL EMBOSSING ON BACK AND SPINE; PRINTED ON 170 GR. PERIGORD CONDAT MATT PAPER IN BLACK/WHITE TRITONES WITH VARNISH.
72 PAGES
33 X 21 CM
EDITION OF 1000
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In Wrong, Asger Carlsen has mis-created an attractive, disheartening and joyful freak show. Using alchemy, darkness and an unrestricted imagination, he has adorned a parallel world populated by very normal and very strange humans, humanoids, animals and landscapes. One gets the feeling that he, like Mary Shelley's doctor and other scientists, feels a profound fondness for his creations. He lets the viewer wonder and ponder, simultaneously entertained, attracted, confused, choked or disturbed by the twisted black and white moments that exist outside time and space. Premeditated abstract wrong evolves into snapshots that are strangely familiar and mundane. Carlsen taps into a murky subconscious river that runs through all of us. We know we are looking at a manipulated reality, but it is as tangible as the real.