Bjarne Melgaard - Artist Info

About Bjarne Melgaard

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    "Art World Wild Man Bjarne Melgaard Is Turning Himself into a Fashion Brand—and Giving Away the Clothes," Artsy Editorial, By Casey Lesser, Feb 14th, 2017 10:02 pm

    On Saturday evening of New York Fashion Week, a typical art crowd filtered into the Lower East Side location of Gavin Brown’s enterprise, eager to gather around a candy-pink astroturf runway occupied by 15 scampering teacup pigs.

    It was the first of a series of fashion week events planned in honor of Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s newest work: a six-collection streetwear line called MELGAARD, which is the focus of a large-scale exhibition, titled The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment, at Red Bull Arts New York.

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