Markús Þór Andrésson (b. 1975) is the Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Public Engagement at Reykjavík Art Museum. He studied art at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts from 1997 to 2001 and curatorial studies at the CCS Bard College in USA from 2005 to 2007. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, written about art and worked on documentaries and TV programs on art.
Markus Thor Andresson
Beyond the Confessional: Three Case Studies Toward Sincerity in Art
What does it mean to make art about real feelings, and what does it mean to view it? What happens when integrity is divorced from sincerity? Markus Thor Andresson and Chen Tamir explore how artists reintroduce emotion and concepts like sincerity, integrity, humiliation and the pathetic in contemporary art.