Gardar Eide Einarsson: DOG-WHISTLE POLITICS

Dog-Whistle: You have to be a dog to hear the dog whistle. 

Dog-Whistle politics: You have to be in the know in order to understand the message in the deliberately ambiguous communication, the symbols or behaviour, which seem to mean one thing for the general population and something else for the target group. 

The surfaces are minimal, reduced and colourless in the exhibition's five paintings, monochrome striped bronze cones, and numbered masks of sand-colored cotton material. The symbols of violence, politics, class struggle and revolution may be sensed, but you never feel completely in the know! 

The exhibition The World Is Yours opens on 4 September at Louisiana. 

Gardar Eide Einarsson will be showing three works, including Einarsson's contribution to the Istanbul Biennial 2005, the installation The World is Yours, which will be installed on the roof over the main entrance to the museum.

Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976 in Oslo) lives in New York. He trained at the art academies in Bergen, Norway and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as at the Independent Study Program Whitney Museum of American Art/Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York, USA. In recent years Einarsson has exhibited in most of Europe and the US.