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Dieter Roth
Taking the Dieter Roth train is a trip through the essence of art. All is art, everything Dieter did was an expression of art and the train trip takes you on an unforgettable trip, giving the viewer a whole new perspective on…
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Preaching History
Most of the Icelanders who migrated to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries went to Canada. But about 400 Icelanders travelled to Utah, following Mormon missionaries and the promise of a paradise on earth in Utah. The exhibition…
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Within the Belly of the beast – America vs. America
We are witnessing liberal rights being chipped away to protect us from hidden enemies. In the USA of today, many outspoken artists are experiencing for the first time since the McCarthy era that they are being censored or even threatened because of…
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Comics: Closer than First-Person
I have always had a weakness for comics. My newest favourites are graphic novels that recite history. Just read three books on this subject. They have a common thread, life during wartime experienced through the eyes of the innocents. The visual of…
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If God Were a Poet, He Would Have Created This World
Walking between the massive mountains of concrete in the dark, spotting small colourful glass creatures between them, looking as if they were crawling slower than snails towards the tunnel of light… Walking, looking, wanting to touch those life forms that captured manna…
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Lights within the Bog of Cats
“Mýrarljós” is loosely based on a play by Euripides called “Medea”; however, you don’t really have to know anything about the original tragedy in order to enjoy “Mýrarljós”. The play deals with the travelling people of Ireland, the Tinkers, who often used…
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A UNIQUE LIFE – A UNIQUE MUSEUM
It was raining heavily and the rain turning into sleet when I arrived at Glúfrasteinn, the home of the late Halldór Laxness and his family, recently turned into a museum. I pushed the doorbell and a got a warm welcome from the…
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Echoes of the PastEchoes of the Future
A woollen raincoat cased in transparent plastic, ice cubes in the shape of Iceland, (Klakinn, as they call it), a sphere of lava as a mobile dwelling for hidden people. Each piece with one foot in heritage, the other gazing bravely towards…
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Voices in the Waterfalls
Rúrí represented Iceland at the 50th Venice Biennale 2003 with the multimedia installation Archive – endangered waters. The work is finally displayed in Reykjavík at the National Gallery of Iceland, and will be until the 13th of March. The work contains 52…
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His dad’s pigs
“Influences” is the name of his new show at the Reykjavík Art Museum. In his list of influences on his homepage, he mentions his childhood in Black County, the Cold War, Expressionism, Surrealism, the paintings of Casper David Friedrich, the books of…
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Will the real MARLENE DIETRICH please stand up?
Dancer/choreographer/director/singer and general creative lady Erna Ómarsdóttir of Íslenski Dansflokkurinn has never been afraid to take on something new. Together with the equally multi-faceted Slovenian Emil Hrvatin, who amongst other things is head of the production and publishing company Maska, and edits…
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SÆVAR KARL´S GALLERY: THE SUITS WON’T SPOIL IT
The exhibition space is simple and serene. Its discrete ambiance makes it feel like a peculiar haven, distinctly sans-fashion. But there’s no getting around it: it’s weird for me, Joe Art-Enthusiast, to walk through a zone of thousand-dollar suits to get there.…
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KJARVALS OTHER PLACE
Jóhannes Kjarval is one of those names in Icelandic art that made it even to the briefest of brief tourist brochures, and not only because he, just like his literary Nobel-prize-winning counterpart, uses a surname that is easier to remember than the…
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NÝHIL ON TOUR
On a sunny Friday afternoon I sat down at Austurvöllur waiting for one of the founding members of the group Nýhil (pronounced nee-hil). I noticed the group last September on account of the massive amount of underground work published and the monthly…