Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.07.2004, Blaðsíða 21

Iðnó - Theatre
Summer Season of Light nights July 5th - August
27th. Every Monday and Friday at 8.30 p.m.
(duration 2 hours). Light Nights is presented in
English.
Volcano show: Red rock cinema
If you don’t want to wait for the next volcanic
eruption, then just go watch a video of the last,
it’s less dangerous and much more reliable then
nature. Admission 750ISK
Ásmundarsafn, Sculpture museum
10:00-16:00 every day
The Man and Material. A retrospective exhibition
of works by Asmundur Sveinsson.
Reykjavík Zoo and Family Park
10:00-18:00 every day
Icelandic horse and sheep, along with local va-
rieties other animals in the zoo. Right beside it
is the Park, which has various activities for the
whole family.
Kjarvalsstaðir Art Museum
10:00-17:00 every day
Roni Horn: Her, her, her and her: Photographs
taken in the Reykjavik Swimming Hall.
Francesco Clemente: New Works. Exhibition of
new works by the famous Italian artist. Works
from the Kjarval Collection.
Einar Jónsson Sculpture Museum
Tue-Sun 14:00-17:00
Works of Einar Jónsson, Iceland´s first sculptor.
Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík Art Museum
10:00-17:00 every day
I Didn’t Do It. Private exhibition of Thorvaldur
Thorsteinsson - the museum’s summer exhibition.
Also part of the Erró Collection on show.
Sigurjón Ólafsson Sculpture Museum
Tue-Sun 14:00-17:00
Sigurjón Ólafsson’s Works in public Space: Poster
exhibition and sculptures related to Ólafsson’s
monuments and public sculptures.
Reykjavík Museum of Photography
Mon-Fri 12:00-19:00, Sat&Sun 13:00-
17:00.
A collection of Finnish contemporary photo-
graphs.
Icelandic Institute of Natural History
Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun 13:00-17:00
Geological, botanical and zoological exhibits, dis-
playing the nature of Iceland.
Saga Museum
10:00-16:00 every day.
The Saga museum intimately recreates key mo-
ments in Icelandic history and gives a compelling
view into how Icelanders have lived and thought
for more than a millenium through the use of life
size likenesses
Museum of Medical History
Sun,Tue,Thu,Sat 13:00-17:00
Artefacts, tools, instruments and pictures on the
subject.
Reykjavík Electricity Museum
Tue-Sun 13:00-17:00
A historical survey of the uses of electricity in
the city of Reykjavik, from the time of the first
hydroelectric station at Elliðaár, in operation from
1921 onwards.
Reykjavík City Library
Mon-Fri 10:00-16:00
Books and periodicals in Icelandic as well as Eng-
lish, Scandinavian and other languages. Also has
a childrens and a comic book section.
Gallery Fold
Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00 Sat 11:00-17:00 Sun
14:00-17:00
One of the largest Galleries in Iceland, works by
many know artists.
Gallery Meistari Jakob
Mon-Fri 11:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-14:00
The gallery is run by eleven artists who work in
ceramics, textiles, printmaking and paintings and
you will always find one of them at the gallery.
Gallery Tukt
Mon-Thu 13:00-18:00, Fri 13:00 - 17:00
Various artists.
Safn
Wed-Fri 14:00-18:00. Sat&Sun 14:00-17:00
The works were the artists’ most current works
at the time of the museums purchase.
Gallery of the Icelandic printmakers as-
sociation
Tue-Sun 14:00-18:00
Exhibition by Frank Hammerhöj, danish painter
Ends July 18
FRIDAY
JULY 9
Klink og bank artist workplace
Iceland inside - outside, introduction (Russia)
SATURDAY
JULY 10
National Gallery of Iceland
Summer exhibition Environment and nature opens
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Lunch Time Concert - Christian Schmitt, organ
Reykjavík City Library
Womenwalk threw downtown Reykjavík, the walk
starts at the city library.
SUNDAY
JULY 11
All around Iceland
Icelandic Museum Day. A great opportunity to
gain free entry to the main museums, not only
in Reykjavik, but throughout the country. One
day only
Árbæjarsafn, Folk Museum
National Museum Day. History of Reykjavik.
Guided tour at the museum. Service in museum
church 2 pm. Display of old motorcycles. Guided
history walk in downtown Reykjavik at 2 pm
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Evening Concerts Sundays - Christian Schmittþ
TUESDAY
JULY 13
Sigurjón Ólafsson Sculpture Museum
Ragnheiður Árnadóttir, soprano and Peter Nilsson,
piano. Works by H. Purcell, W.A. Mozart, D. Ar-
gento and the Swedish composers Stenhammar,
and Peterson-Berger.
THURSDAY
JULY 15
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Lunch Time Concert - Sveinn Arnar Sæmundsson,
organ
FRIDAY
JULY 16
Árbæjarsafn, Folk Museum
Children’s puppet show at 2 pm.
SATURDAY
JULY 17
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Lunch Time Concert - Douglas A. Brotchie, organ
Klink og bank artist workplace
Opening of show in the Greenhall. Junglestation
opens in the park of Klink and bank.
SUNDAY
JULY 18
Árbæjarsafn, Folk Museum
Acordian day: Folk music program
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Evening Concerts Sundays - By Douglas A.
Brotchie playing on a organ
Salurinn Concert Hall in Kópavogur
An international children´s choir festival bringing
400 children from all over the world together for
a week of singing. Ends by singing together at
these two concert at 18th of july.
TUESDAY
JULY 20
Sigurjón Ólafsson Sculpture Museum
Simon Jermyn, guitar, Jóel Pálsson and Ólafur
Jónsson, tenor-saxophones, Þorgrímur Jónsson
acoustic bass and Erik Qvick drums. Contempo-
rary jazz by Reid Anderson, Per ‘Texas’ Johansson
and the musicians themselves.
WEDNESDAY
JULY 21
Ömmukaffi
20:30 Poetry night, open mic
THURSDAY
JULY 22
Hallgrímskirkja Church
Nicole Cariglia, cello and Eyþór Ingi Jónsson,
organ
Klink og bank artist workplace
Klink and bank Musicseries (Rússland)
LISTINGS : june 9 - july 22
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ONGOING
ASÍ museum
Tue-Sun 14:00-18:00
Exhibition by the artist Hafstein Austmann, the
name of the show is Colours of the water
National Gallery of Iceland
11:00-17:00 every day
This year’s summer exhibition will address the
theme Environment and nature in Icelandic 20th-
century art.
Hafnarborg Art Gallery
Wed-Sun 11:00-17:00
Waiting: Sculptures donated to the museum by
the artist Einar Már Guðvarðarson. Also Contem-
porary Japanese art: Japanese art made by 40
artists. The works include paintings, sculpture
and installations.
Klink og bank artist workplace
Workplace for artist, open when something
speacial is going on.
Culture House
11:00-17:00 every day
A summer exhibition entitled The Poetic Edda.
The exhibition is intended to provide visitors
with some insights into these ancient poems.
Many of Iceland’s national treasures are on dis-
play. Featured exhibitions Medieval Manuscripts
– Eddas and Sagas. Exhibition Home Rule 1904.
Gerðarsafn, Kóparvogur Art Gallery
Tue-Sun 11:00-17:00.
RECENT AQUISITIONS: Works by Icelandic art-
ists having exhibited at the museum in recent
years.
Nordic House
Mon-Fri 8:00-17:00, Sat&Sun 12:00-17:00
7-A View from the North: Travelling exhibition - 7
artists from the Nordic Countrie. ISK 300,-
Gallery Skuggi
Thu-Sun 13:00-17:00
Gallery Skuggi is a new exhibition gallery for
contemporary art, located in central Reykjavík.
Kling og Bang Gallery
Exhibition by world famous american artists Paul
McCarthy and Jason Rhoades
Árbæjarsafn, Folk Museum
Tue-Fri 10:00-17:00, Sat&Sun 10:00-
18:00
Árbæjarsafn, Folk Museum is Reykjavík City´s
folk museum and the largest open air museum in
Iceland. It is composed of around 30 buildings
from different periods, most of which have been
moved from downtown Reykjavík.
Austurvöllur out door exhibition
Icelanders: Photography Exhibition in Austurvel-
lir, A Meeting with the Icelanders over a period
of two years, photographer Sigurgeir Sigurjóns-
son and author Unnur Jökulsdóttir travelled
around iceland.
101 Gallery
Exhibition by various artists.
Gallery i8
Thu&Fri 11:00-18:00
Exhibition by Jeanine Cohen
Handverk og Hönnun
Mon-Fri 09.00-16:00
Summer Exhibition of contemporary and tradi-
tional Icelandic art and crafts.
Pearl
The sculptor Teddi displays his artwork of wood
and metal at the Pearl in July.
Kringlan mall
World Press Photo exhibition: Press photos from
all over the world will be exhibited in Kringlan
shopping mall. Ends July 18
CULTUREARTS and
Shopping in Front of Suffering
by Marcie Hume
The art world could not dream up a louder, more ideal juxtaposi-
tion than this one. In the midst of the shopping haven of Kringlan
are photographs of foreign faces peeking in, from places most of us
will never see. And on the bottom floor, the faces are almost exclu-
sively those of people whose entire lives have been summarized and
displayed here in a stilled moment of suffering
It is, of course, to say the least,
disconcerting; the sorrow and scars
hit us brutally under the bright mall
light. But the photos serve to remind
us that not only is there suffering
while we are shopping, but it is in
more places than our minds can hold
at once. There are images from the
wars in Iraq and Libya which show
burns and mutilations, and some
from domestic circumstances that
are confusing and horrific all the
same: one large print shows a 15-
year-old girl in Afghanistan, a pink
bow in her hair, who set herself on
fire because she feared her husband’s
rage after she had damaged his
television set.
This section of the exhibit does
not just focus on the third world.
There are photographs of a girl in
America who, after battling leukemia
for three years, was preparing to
die in her own home at the age of
twenty-three. There are photos
from a Berlin hospice showing
individuals’ faces first alive and
then unmistakably dead, the life so
apparently fallen from them. Seeing
these photos is like being unwillingly
exposed, standing in front of the
image of death, surrounded by shop
windows which display soaps and
skirts on sale.
“People are confronted,” Sigríður
tells me from her shop which
faces some of the most graphic
photos. “If you put these pictures
in another place, in a museum, no
one is confronted. People have just
come here to go shopping, so they
are surprised… the photos take
your breath away. It’s good to be
confronted once in a while.”
The images are set against an
orderly, spotless foreground where
prams and strollers are being
wheeled casually by, some more
quickly than others. Outside a
somewhat enclosed area, there is a
warning that the images inside may
be too strong for children. But the
photos facing the outside are nearly
as shocking and they are in plain
sight. Small children walk by with
their parents, and I see one small
boy reach up to touch the image of a
Chinese man’s back that is all bones
and redness due to AIDS, which he
acquired from donating blood.
One could argue that children
have already been desensitized to
images like these from television and
movies, but it’s more likely that they
just don’t register exactly what they
are seeing. As one viewer tells me,
“They just don’t get it. When you’re
that small, you think everyone’s life
is just like yours. When I was little, if
it was raining in Akureyri, I thought
it was raining everywhere else.”
Reality, however, is not a term
that everyone agrees upon for this
exhibit. “It’s supposed to portray
life as it is, but everyone in the
photos is dying or in a war,” a man
walking by the display tells me.
“These photographers were trying
to seek out filth. Then people think
there are only dismembered heads in
Africa, that that’s all life is there.”
Of course the essence of this type
of photography is proof, albeit
selective, of what life can be like.
When you’re wandering through the
mall, it is inconsequential whether
these photos represent a tiny corner
of reality or the whole of it. Places
of deep suffering exist alongside our
daily lives, and they are linked. The
world these photos present is not
different from ours and, in looking,
we are more a part of it.
It seems that every parent is
guarding their child to the degree
they see fit, but there is no shock or
outrage at the exhibition’s prominent
location. After all, you can’t change
reality, but you can choose to walk
by it faster.
The World Press Photo exhibition
is on display at Kringlan through 18
July.
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