Государственный Русский музей (альманах) "For a long time in the north of Europe we were without a confident and skilled realist, who was focused on delivering optical and tactile sensations and who was attentive to the objective state of reality. For a longtime in the north of Europe we were without a radical transformer of reality, though whose work is not cerebral or "planned", that is to say, does not rely on concepts. One who remains within the field of mimesis: moulding, modelling and kneading the real and the natural in an effort to express deeply individual impulses... All that I have written concerns one artist: Viggo Wallenskold... I can"t speak for my colleagues, but Wallenskold"s painting disarms me. I say this in the direct sense of the word; the usual instruments or tools of the modern critic cease to function. I am talking, above all else, about the practice of articulating the belonging of an artist"s praxis to this or that influential discourse. In other words, I mean the placing of the...