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Many persons who are still alive have seen him wandering among the autumn mists in the bog at Ulfsboda. Either on foot, with a tall and wide hat on his head, or on horseback, mounted on a stately black steed whose shoes are, in popular legend, commonly said to be forged out of clear silver.
– observations of Odin as a ‘nocturnal phantom’ in Sweden in the 1860s
‘A cameo appearance if you ever saw one’, Kasper Bosmans (Belgium, 1990, lives in Brussels) says about his diptych Tails (2022), one of the ‘legend’ paintings in this exhibition. This particular painting builds on the 1969 work Dwarf Parade Table by American artist Paul Thek, whose oeuvre and persona have inspired many contemporary artists identifying as queer.
While relevant to Bosmans’s thinking and to his exhibition at Kohta, his first ever in a Nordic country, this particular piece of background information is nevertheless not of first-order importance for understanding them. So let us first delve into two notions that are.
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Many persons who are still alive have seen him wandering among the autumn mists in the bog at Ulfsboda. Either on foot, with a tall and wide hat on his head, or on horseback, mounted on a stately black steed whose shoes are, in popular legend, commonly said to be forged out of clear silver.
– observations of Odin as a ‘nocturnal phantom’ in Sweden in the 1860s
‘A cameo appearance if you ever saw one’, Kasper Bosmans (Belgium, 1990, lives in Brussels) says about his diptych Tails (2022), one of the ‘legend’ paintings in this exhibition. This particular painting builds on the 1969 work Dwarf Parade Table by American artist Paul Thek, whose oeuvre and persona have inspired many contemporary artists identifying as queer.
While relevant to Bosmans’s thinking and to his exhibition at Kohta, his first ever in a Nordic country, this particular piece of background information is nevertheless not of first-order importance for understanding them. So let us first delve into two notions that are.
A…
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