End in Venice

Ragnar Kjartansson at the 2009 Venice Biennale

At the Iceland Pavilion, a Renaissance palazzo on the Grand Canal, Ragnar Kjartansson performs "The End," in which the artist paints a male model over a six-month period. This is the first in a series of videos on the Biennale to be published over the next two weeks.

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