"A brush with...Ragnar Kjartansson" by Ben Luke

In the first episode of a new series of A brush with..., Ben Luke talks to the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson about the art, music, books, films and cultural experiences that influence his work. He discusses his love of the 18th-century Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera, going to art school in the shadow of Dieter Roth and the book his family reads to one another on their death beds.

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