The Violence
Jonas Liverods new book The Violence is a 200 page collection of drawings, photos and found footage constructed around a photo from the Altamont incident in 1969. The tense, fragmented and darkly hallucinatory world of The Violence builds around the moment when Hells Angels beat a man to death in front of the stage of the Rolling Stones at the Altamont festival. Like Altamont where intentions were good and it all ended up so wrong, The Violence embraces the uncanny, the tries, mistakes and the feverish energy of lost control. Partly printed on bible-paper, the book is a signed and numbered edition of 700.
It follows the series of four exhibitions with the common title Permanent daylight through 2008-09. First out was Pool gallery in Berlin, next comes Ystad museum of Art. In December Permanent daylight #3 opens at Nordin gallery in Stockholm and and finally part four at Kristinehamns museum of art in early 2009. A separate part of Permanent daylight will also
be shown at Aarhus Kunstbyggning in Denmark in 2009. The Violence is published by Norwegian publisher noCUBE and has been designed in collaboration with Danish design agency re-public.

Jonas Liveröd (1974) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden and has been active on the international art-scene since graduating from Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands in 1999. He has had exhibitions and projects at galleries and museums in Denmark, Germany, the United States, France and Vietnam among others. During the coming year he will be showing at  Ystad Art Museum (Sweden), Kristinehamn Museum of Arts (Sweden), Field Museum (Chicago), Pool Gallery (Berlin), Nordin Gallery (Stockholm) Aarhus Kunstbyggning (Denmark) and Thomas Wallner Gallery (Malmö). He also released the book "The Violence" on norwegian publisher NoCube, will release a new collection of clothes and is invited as Artist in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin 2009. For further info visit www.jonasliverod.com