Thursday 17 October 2024, from 18:00 | Free entrance

After two rescheduled dates (thanks to a broken knee), we’re thrilled to finally invite you to dive into Rasmus Myrup’s latest publication — with the brilliant designer Sabo Day by his side. Come hang out at Page Not Found for a lively conversation between Rasmus and Sabo, tied to Rasmus’ previous exhibition Salon des Refusés at our dear neighbours, 1646.

In “The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology. Making their first appearance as a series of sculptures by Myrup, the characters from this Bestiary are all seen through the lens of a Seeress — The Völva. She knows everything her folkloric friends have been through and will endure in the future. It’s a heavy burden: the workaholism of The Bog Lady, failed attempts by The Elven Girls to end the Patriarchy, Freya’s sob story, the sexual frustrations of The Stream Man and Hild’s inability to stop the war between her lover and her dad. In Myrup’s world, they have befriended each other across multiple spheres of fiction — if they don’t know each other, they at least know of each other.

Rasmus Myrup (1991) is a Danish visual artist based in Copenhagen. He graduated from Funen Art Academy (DK) in 2018. His works represent a synthesis of perspectives large and small. Basing his work on the history of evolution and our connection to the natural world, Myrup investigates the big arc of humanity’s natural roots in the context of personal human emotions and relations. He works primarily with sculptural installations and drawing, using empathy as a means to transcend time, species and worlds in order to explore human existence. In Myrup’s art, everything from dinosaurs to Neanderthals or trees can generate new insights into death, sex and power.

Sabo Day is an Amsterdam-based studio for art direction and visual communication, in the field of contemporary art and culture. Soft yet bold, solemn yet trivial. A trick. A façade. A shadow. A sign. An anthem. A jingle. A rose. A cliché.

“The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” (2023) is published by Coda Press.

Image: pages of “The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” courtesy of Rasmus Myrup, Sabo Day and Coda Press.