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Ragnar Kjartansson review a brilliant fusion of humour and sorrow  

Barbican, London
Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland's Ragnar Kjartansson

On the still waters of the Barbican lake drifts a boat bearing two girls in Edwardian costume. The reflection of their puffed sleeves and wasp waists makes a strangely familiar white blur. These are the summer beauties from many a Monet; indeed they are floating towards a waterlily reef. But it's a scene fit for Courbet too, for these girls have cast aside the oars to lean together, lips meeting in a kiss.

It is the most sensuous surprise in the middle of this brutalist enclave. Passers-by stop walking to look. And this kiss goes on and on, so that the moment appears both endless and still just like a painting, in fact.

Here is Kjartansson impersonating Death in a graveyard, impotently arguing about fate with a group of passing children

For the broken-hearted, Ragnar Kjartansson offers consolation; for lovers he conjures a mirror of their blessed state

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janka bertelsen creates carved kebony wood façade for her munich studio  

on the exterior, the artist has incorporated a prototype of one of her future projects: a life-size print of driftwood from vancouver island.

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Portrait of Orleans  
Portrait of Orleans by Edward Hopper, 1950, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  
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