Marco evaristti artworks

Marco evaristti goldfish
Marco evaristti: helena
Marco Evaristti is a Chilean artist who has lived in Denmark since the 1980s.

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Marco Evaristti Red Factions

Marco Evaristti (*1963), enfant terrible of the Danish art scene, is a risktaker who likes to place himself and the viewer in extremely dangerous reallife situations as part of his artworks. His art calls into question political methods and claims, taking up themes such as territorial power, pollution, possessiveness, and judgments over life and death. In 2004 he braved minus 23-degree temperatures to pour some 3,000 liters of red paint over an iceberg floating near Greenland, officially under Danish sovereignty, declaring: "This is my iceberg." The stunt sparked a heated debate on the limits of art, the pollution caused by the paint, and the seeming meaninglessness of the act. Next came The Mont Rouge Project in June 2007, for which the artist dyed areas of Mont Blanc red. In January 2008, Evaristti completed the trilogy in the desert of Sahara. This book is being published to accompany the world premiere of the presentation of Evaristti's trilogy on the subject of territory at Kunsthalle Krems.

Hardcover20 x 24 cm160 pages89 color illu

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Marco Evaristti Danish, b. 1963

A retrospective: Marco Evaristti’s work demonstrates the important themes behind the outrage he has created. The outrage his work creates stems from the way he subverts the idea of outrageousness, while at the same time he exposes the concept to a multitude of critical viewpoints. His work asks important questions about everyday existence in general as well as in the specific context of institutionalized art at a time when the oceans are rising.

Evaristti's works are included in several important museum collections such as: MAC, Santiago Chile; MONA, Tasmania, Australia; MBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba; National Museum of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand; HEART, Herning, Denmark; Trapholt, Modern Art Museum, Kolding, Denmark; Vejle Art Museum, Denmark and The National Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Marco Evaristti Danish, b. 1963

This work was originally part of the “Eye go black” exhibition in 2000, where the photograph was seen first, then the missile and lipsticks and finally a table with ten blenders containing living goldfish. The option of blending goldfish stole the thunder from the rest of the exhibition. Very few people today immediately associate the violent and central large photograph of a blindfolded man with military trousers around his ankles with “the goldfish work”.

The work is ultimately about a person’s journey in the world in which Evaristti believes there are three types of person: The Sadist, the Voyeur and the Moralist. If a person is a sadist he or she will press the button on the blender because he or she is able to do so. Is the person a voyeur, he/she excitedly observes whether others will press the button. Is the person a moralist he/she becomes infuriated by the fact that there is an option to blend fish. Moreover, the work does not have a single, unambiguous interpretation, but it is possible to seek out the many elements that point to