Gardar Eide Einarsson

Gardar Eide Einarsson

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interview by BOB NICKAS 
portrait by TERRY RICHARDSON 

 

A norwegian artist, now living in New York, GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON’s work incorporates a veritable rogues gallery of assassins and mad bombers—from Lincoln’s murderer, John Wilkes Booth, to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to Al Pacino as Scarface—into artistic representions of a “tragic ideal of individualism,” which he identifies as being particularly American. Einarsson is clearly drawn to the darker side of life, but always at a remove and often with a wry sense of humor, shifting away from the overtly political art of the 80s and 90s. Who but an artist and outsider could have staged a play written by the Unabomber?

BOB NICKAS — There are three small paintings here, and each one says: “I Am The Master of My Fate, I Am The Captain Of My Soul.”…