Itso, E.B.: AROS FOCUS // BUILDING STORIES - E.B. ITSO // NEW NORDIC .

Author: Vengberg, Jakob ed
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish/English
Year Published: 2015
No. of pages: 152
Illustrations: 26 Color Illustrations. 62 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9788792184368
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 7005

Price: $59.50

This most generously illustrated book presents the first museum exhibition of the young Danish artist E.B. Itso. In recent years Itso has attracted attention on the Danish art scene and in the media world with a number of works that connect urban space with artistic space. Itso is concerned with places and individuals at the margins of the well known and the well documented. The exhibition, however, does not only present the forgotten stories and overlooked spaces of the big city. In connection with the exhibition Itso travelled to the Italian island of Lampedusa on a scholarship. His works from that Island constitute a poetic documentation of the destinies of the many nameless people who risk their lives every year on voyages from North Africa to Lampedusa. Itso’s observations are characterised by social commitment and an implicit wish to give voice to people who are normally excluded and who exist on the periphery of society. The majority of the book contains full page illustrations of the work, with writings by the artist and two articles by prominent Danish art professors.