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Around the Ringroad This Summer

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

25.06.2020

– 04.10.2020

WHAT IT SEEMS – REALITY ON CANVAS 1970-2020

Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstaðir

06.08.2020

– 03.01.2021

Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition

Reykjavik Art Museum- Hafnarhúsið

25.07.2020

– 30.08.2020

GÆSAHÚÐ/FLEUR DE PEAU/FACETIME

The Factory in Hjalteyri

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03.07.2020

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson: Exorcising Ancient Ghosts

22.06.2020

Video: Ólafur Elíasson on his exhibition Beyond human time

19.06.2020

Around the Ringroad This Summer

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In 1980 Iceland was represented by Magnús Pálsso

In 1980 Iceland was represented by Magnús Pálsson at @labiennale as part of the Danish Pavilion.
His preferred medium for his work plaster; and throughout the 70s his primary interest was in casting various “impossible” subjects such as negative space.

These immaterial themes are what he explored with his contributions to the 1980 biennale, such as Hvískur/Whisper or what Nefertiti whispered to Alexander the Great (Image 1, courtesy of Hugrunir); and The seconds before the Sikorsky helicopter touches down, 1976 (Image 2, courtesy of @e_flux).

Magnús was also a teacher at @iceland_university_of_the_arts and together with his students he made a book called Bók um bók og fleira which he also presented at the biennale as a catalogue (images courtesy of Uns Artbooks) .

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Artfinger Pub is an Iceland-based book seller and

Artfinger Pub is an Iceland-based book seller and publisher focused on publishing bookworks by upcoming artists and importing contemporary writings on art theory and social structures. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This Thursday they will be launching Affall/Greywater - a new bookwork by @fritziv at @nylistasafnid . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In Affall / Greywater the reader is introduced to The Scholar, a lone thinker trapped in an old house with lead poisoning. He spends his time there scribbling texts and drawings, pondering over his own state of mind in relation to old and recent history, making far fetched connections and relations.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Catch them tomorrow from 20:00 to 22:00 at Nylo for a special release deal, and if you can't make it follow their day on our stories during their takeover!

This week we are having a double takeover by @frit

This week we are having a double takeover by @fritziv and @artfingerpub in anticipation of his artist book launch this Thursday at @nylistasafnid

Fritz Hendrik is interested in the act of both the conscious and unconscious staging in life, art and culture. In his work he explores these subjects through different fictional strategies, e.g. in close collaboration with the fictional scholar and theorist Fræðimaðurinn (e. The Scholar) who is an expert in looking at the world through the ‘Grey veil’ as he calls it, revealing the more grey and poetic aspects of life.

Find out more about his work tomorrow during his story takeover and on Thursday at Nylo!

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Just a stunning half hour drive from Egilsstaðir,

Just a stunning half hour drive from Egilsstaðir, Seyðisfjörður is an art lover's paradise. Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth lived and worked here for periods during the last years of his life, which drew other creatives to the small fjord. Now it hosts @lunga.festival every summer and houses multiple art residencies @skaftfell @lungaschool @heimaartresidency and @strondinstudio .

This summer we visited @skaftfell to see their current exhibition Mon ciel, mi cielo by Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir, whose work explores ‘the basic gesture of making art and the fundamental building blocks of it – line, colour, composition’. For this exhibition, she chose to pair her work with that of Benedikt Guðmundsson, an artist whose modernist work she grew up around. We also hiked up to see Lukas Kühne's Tvísöngur - a concrete sound sculpture consisting of five interconnected domes each shaped for it's resonance to correspond to one of the traditional Icelandic five-tone harmony.

Pictured here are
One: Tvísöngur
Two and Three: Works by Benedikt Guðmundsson from Mon ciel, mi cieloat at @skaftfell
Four and Five: Works by Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir from Mon ciel, mi cielo at @skaftfell

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