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What Reality Is Made Of: Alicja Kwade Questions Everything We Think We Know
On a warm Thursday night, one corner of Tryggvagata is alive with chatter. Art students, collectors, museum professionals and at least one wayward classics professor have gathered outside i8 Gallery, along with a surprising number of art-sniffing dogs. The free drinks are…
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Sæbraut Public Artwork Vandalised In “Politically Motivated” Act
The public artwork Partnership (Samband), which is on display on Sæbraut near Höfði in Reykjavík, has been vandalised in an “act of political motivation”, reports Vísir. In conversation with Vísir, Sigurður Trausti Traustason, Head of Collections and Research at the Reykjavík Art…
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A Life, Curated: At 80 Sigurður Guðmundsson Is Just Getting Started
The artist Sigurður Guðmundsson is preoccupied with pouring a bottle of beer into a glass. He watches the rim intently, anticipating how much he can add before the point of no return. I comment that I will have to drink it directly…
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Harpa: The Wind Sings Through Art With New Sculpture
A new abstract sculpture made in celebration of Harpa’s 10th anniversary was introduced to the public in front of the concert hall this past weekend. Prime minister Katrín Jacobsdóttir unveiled Elín Hansdóttir’s artwork on Saturday. Vísir reports that the work was selected…
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Katrín I. Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir’s Self Love Contract For The People
A loud clanking sound echoes ominously from behind the large metal doors of Iceland’s Sculpture Association building. As I ring the bell, I wonder what could be happening inside. Chains rattle, and tools roar. Eventually the door opens, and the smiling, paint-splattered…
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WOW Air Sculpture Torn Down By High Winds
Yesterday’s gale force winds in Reykjavík claimed one victim, and with uncanny timing: a sculpture owned by WOW Air CEO Skúli Mogensen. Vísir reports that the sculpture in question, Obtusa, was created by artist Rafael Barrios but is owned by Skúli, and…
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Humans Of Reykjavík: Guðrún Halldórsdóttir
Guðrún Halldórsdóttir does not like to crow too loudly about her accomplishments. Like William S. Burroughs and Wallace Stevens, Guðrún’s creative blossoming started relatively late in life; it wasn’t until she was about 40 that she decided to pursue art as a…
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Moving Matter: Cycles and stillness with Eva Ísleifsdóttir and Sindri Leifsson
Eva Ísleifsdóttir enters Gerðarsafn a little soggy from the mist. She tears off her raincoat and meets me on the north end of the museum space, where her half of the two-artist show ‘SCULPTURE/SCULPTURE’ is housed. Our boots squeak along the shining…
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Mutual Core: Elín Hansdóttir Disrupts Ásmundarsafn
“Come with me. To the beginning, to the chaos, where everything is, but also nothing,” proclaims sculptor Elín Hansdóttir, faux-dramatically, her voice bouncing around the Ásmundursafn sculpture museum. She cuts a diminutive, elegant figure in the pristine white space as she reads…