Hariton Pushwagner

Jun 28, 2012

Milton Keynes

MK Gallery currently presents Pushwagner: Soft City, the first solo exhibition outside Norway by the visionary artist Hariton Pushwagner. Since the recent discovery of his work, Pushwagner has become a celebrity in his home nation, appearing regularly in newspaper headlines and television talk shows, renowned for his homelessness and hedonistic lifestyle, and compared to a modern day Edvard Munch.

Pushwagner’s defining creation is the graphic novel Soft City, an epic satire of capitalism and life in the modern metropolis, produced intermittently in Oslo and London between 1969 and 1976. His work also takes the form of intricate and obsessively detailed paintings, presenting a personal mythology of a world under perpetual siege from pollution, totalitarianism and mass destruction.

MK Gallery

June 28th – September 2nd, 2012
900 Midsummer Blvd
Milton Keynes MK9 3QA
UK

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