Elmgreen & Dragset

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Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked as a collaborative duo since the mid- 1990s. Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's 'Powerless Structures' reconfigure the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012.

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"Across twenty-odd years of collaboration, the artist team of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created a rangy, often memorable body of sculptural and installation work that oscillates between the melancholic and the glib, the subtle and the slapstick."Jeffrey Kastner, Artforum

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Martin Herbert is associate editor of Art Review and a regular contributor to publications such as Artforum, Frieze, and Art Monthly.