Bjarne Melgaard: Black Low

by Jan Hoet, Jim Rakete, Andri Rau

Norwegian "black metal" music was born in the late 1980s as a reaction against the fact that heavy metal music had become mainstream. In Black Low , the organized chaos of Bjarne Melgaard's "trash art" or "slacker art" mines the themes and visual culture of this music to focus on ideas of suicide as a philosophical question.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2003

About the author

Jan Hoet was a prominent Belgian art curator and museum director, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art in Belgium and beyond during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.