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Bjarne Melgaard

Bjarne Melgaard (Born 1967) is active/lives in New York / Norway.  Bjarne Melgaard is known for Sex themed installations, sculpture, painting, drawing, fashion.

"Art World Wild Man Bjarne Melgaard Is Turning Himself into a Fashion Brand—and Giving Away the Clothes," Artsy Editorial, By Casey Lesser, Feb 14th, 2017 10:02 pm

On Saturday evening of New York Fashion Week, a typical art crowd filtered into the Lower East Side location of Gavin Brown’s enterprise, eager to gather around a candy-pink astroturf runway occupied by 15 scampering teacup pigs.

It was the first of a series of fashion week events planned in honor of Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s newest work: a six-collection streetwear line called MELGAARD, which is the focus of a large-scale exhibition, titled The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, at Red Bull Arts New York.

The ethically dubious event at Gavin Brown, held to open the complementary gallery show that runs through February 19th, saw the miniature pigs (rented for the day) wearing bejeweled pendants from Melgaard’s jewelry collaboration with designer Bjørg Nordli-Mathisen. (The show   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7547 characters.]  Artist bio

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