White on White: The Art of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset.

We've all been to openings where nothing is quite finished, but the first night of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset's recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich must have set a record. When the crowd walked through the doors, they encountered a construction site in which two men were busy demolishing a concrete wall with sledgehammers while another pair of workers were erecting a new one.

Still another duo was removing the rubble and emptying the director's office of its furniture. The wreckage was everywhere and the noise was deafening. What was going on? Had there been an accident? ...

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