Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.08.2006, Qupperneq 17

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Video-instalments
A video instalment titled “Video-instal-
ments” by artists Aleksandra Signer and
Tumi Magnússon is on display now in
the Ásmund room and the pit at the
Icelandic Labour Union’s Art Gallery.
The exhibition is a collaborative effort
between Polish Signer, who will be
displaying five pieces that she worked
on between 1997-2006, and Icelandic
Magnússon, who will be displaying his
recent video work on four screens.
In 1973 Signer attended the Art
University in Warsaw, and she has
worked in Gallen, Swiss since 1977,
mainly in video, which often ref lects her
political sentiments.
Magnússon was born in Reykjavík
but studied visual art in Holland. He
worked as a professor at the Iceland
Academy of the Arts between 1999-
2005 before being offered a professor-
ship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
in Copenhagen. After working with
painting for most of his career, Magnús-
son has recently begun experimenting
with photography, video and computer
technology.
icelandic Labour union’s art gallery
(Freyjugata 41) tuesday-Sunday, 13-
17. until October 9
“Drawing has been defined as the archaeology of the act of touching
a surface. In recent work I have been trying to push this notion to an
extreme, taking scales and speeds of touch – and the location of touch in
time – and polarising them out to the limits of their range.”
For his large drawings, Reykjavík-based artist Alistair Macin-
tyre utilises time-sensitive mediums such as iron oxide on paper. His
sketches become strangely alive as, in taking inspiration both literally
and figuratively from the natural environment, they attempt to represent
fragments of time and ideas stencilled onto paper like fossils.
After getting a diploma in landscape architecture from Chelten-
ham College in the U.K., Macintyre switched over to the fine arts,
graduating with honours and a major in sculpture eight years later. He
then attended Kuvataideakatemia in Helsinki, and the School of Art
and Design at Glamorgan University. Currently he lives and works in
Reykjavík.
gallery turpentine (ingólfstræti 5) tuesday-Friday, 12-18. until Sep-
tember 5
>>>OutSiDE rEyKJaVÍK
SEyðiSFJÖrður:
SKaFtFELL
www.skaftfell.is
26.08-24.09.06
Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir &
Gauthier Hubert
HÓtEL ÖLDunni
Fígúrur í koníaksstofunni
gjess (Guðjón Sigvaldason)
HaFnarFJÖrður:
HaFnarBOrg
Mon.-Sun. 11-17
www.hafnarborg.is
08.07-28.08.06
“Hin blíðu Hraun”
Jóhannes Kjarval
KEFLaVÍK:
SuðSuðVEStur
Hafnargata 22
Thu.-Fri. 16-18
Sat.-Sun. 14-17
www.sudsudvestur.is
aKurEyri:
DaLÍ gaLLErÍ
Brekkugata 9
Mon.-Sat. 14-18
01.06-26.08.06
Joris Rademaker
gaLLErÍ +
Brekkugata 35
(Closed for the summer)
JÓnaS Viðar gaLLEry
Fri.-Sat. 13-18
aKurEyri art MuSEuM
Kaupvangsstræti 12
Tue.-Sun. 12-17
www.listasafn.akureyri.is
alistair Macintyre
In 1970, at the age of 25, Páll S. Kristinsson moved from Iceland to the United States, never to return again. After his death last February, his sister Bára Kristinsdóttir visited
and photographed his home and surroundings in Jupiter, Florida, where he spent the greater half of his life. The collection of photographs, titled “My Brother’s Environment”
documents Bára’s unique perspective on a world dramatically distant from her own.
gallerí anima (ingólfsstræti 8) Wednesday-Saturday, 13-17. until September 9
My Brother’s Environment
How did it all begin?
Multimedia techniques bring
Reykjavík’s past to life, providing
visitors with insights into how
people lived in the Viking Age, and
what the Reykjavík environment
looked like to the first settlers.
The Settlement Exhibition 871±2
is located at Aðalstræti 16
Reykjavík City Museum
www.reykjavik871.is
Step into
the Viking Age