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Parrot

Artist
Karl Larsson
Date
2010
Publisher
Paraguay Press
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
11 × 18.4 × 1 cm
Length
80 
Description

Parrot is the third book written by Swedish artist Karl Larsson, whose work consistently explores language, writing, and narrative in relation to historical and contemporary experiments in literature and art. Parrot originates from a research conducted by the artist on the work of Marcel Broodthaers, who famously withdrew from poetry and developed a fascination for birds — as in the famous piece from 1976 ‘Ne dites pas que je ne l’ai pas dit.’

Parrot by Karl Larsson is a 80-page poetic essay – or maybe an analytical piece of poetry – about the repetition, the dissemination, and the crystallization of words and their meanings. It is a book about bodies, containers, and documents. It harbors, generates and repeats poetical statements. A parrot is a bird whose body is inhabited by others: it mimics their language and creates comical and uncanny resemblances. It is a very beautiful bird.

This book was produced in conjunction with the exhibition “Parrot” Marcel Broodthaers and Karl Larsson, at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sept-Oct 2010.

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