Reykjavík Grapevine - 29.06.2007, Qupperneq 13

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Vonarstræti
www.rvk.is
Jul 7 – Jul 22
Monsters and Liquit Works
Ólafur Þórðarson exhibition
Reykjavík Museum
Kistuhylur 4
Open daily from 10-17
www.arbaejarsafn.is
Permanent exhibition:
Objects from Reykjavík cultural history.
The Reykjavík Museum
of Photography
Grófarhús, Tryggvagata 15, 6th floor
Weekdays 12-19
Sat.-Sun. 13-17
Free Entrance
www.ljosmyndasafnreykjavikur.is
Jun 1 – Sept 9
Automatos
Olaf Otto Becker, Páll Stefánsson and
RAX
May 15 – Jul 4
The Resistance Collection
Unnar Örn exhibition
Safn
Laugavegur 37
Wed.-Fri. 14-18
Sat.-Sun. 14-17
Free Entrance
www.safn.is
May 19 – Oct 20
Museum of the Surface / Desire Archive
/ Decay Complex
Unnar Örn J. Auðarson exhibition
May 19 – Jul 1
Quadro Pop
Davíð Örn Halldórsson exhibition
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum
Laugarnestangi 70
Open Tue.-Sun. 14-17
Permanent exhibition:
Works of sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson
Start Art / Art Shop
Laugavegur 12b
www.startart.is
Jul 7 – Jul 29
Fríða Gylfadóttir exhibition
Jul 7 – Jul 29
Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttir exhibition
Outside Reykjavík
Skaftfell
Austurvegur 42, Seyðisfjörður
www.skaftfell.is
Jul 7 – Aug 4
Tumi Magnússon summer-exhibition
featuring video installations
Hornafjörður Cultural Centre
Nýheimum, 780 Hornafjörður
www.hornafjordur.is/
menningarmidstod
Jun 28 – Aug 7
Svavar Guðnason summer exhibition
Jun 29 – Jul 30
Digital / Film / Oil
Hlynur Pálmason exhibition
Gallery Klettur
Helluhraun 16, Hafnarfjörður
Open Sat. 10-14. At other times by
arrangement.
Hafnarborg
Strandgata 34, Hafnarfjörður
Mon.-Sun. 11-17
www.hafnarborg.is
Jun 28 – Aug 5
Paintings
Work of the Norse artist Kjell Nupen
Gljúfrasteinn
– Halldór Laxness museum
270 Mosfellsbær
Open daily except Mondays from
10-17.
Kópavogur Art Museum
– Gerðarsafn
Hamraborg, Kópavogur
Open daily 11:00-17:00 except
Mondays
www.gerdarsafn.is
The Icelandic Museum of Design
and Applied Art
Lyngás 7-9, 121 Garðabær
Opening hours: Tues. –Fri. 14-18; Sat.
and Sun. 16-18.
www.mudesa.org
Exhibitions devoted to Icelandic design.
The Icelandic Settlement Centre
Brákarbraut 13-15, Borgarnes
Opening hours: May to September 10-
20; September to May 11-17.
www.landnam.is
Permanent exhibitions:
The Settlement of Iceland: The Saga of
Egill Skalla-Grímsson
Suðsuðvestur
Hafnargata 22, Keflavík
Thu.-Fri. 16-18
Sat.-Sun. 14-17
www.sudsudvestur.is
Jun 30 – Aug 12
Birgir Snæbjörn and J.B.K. Ransu
exhibition
Vatnasafn / Library of Water
Bókhlöðustígur 17, 340 Stykkishólmur
www.libraryofwater.is
Open daily from 11 – 17.
Permanent exhibition:
Roni Horn installation. She has replaced
stacks of books with glass columns
containing water gathered from
Iceland’s glaciers and glacial rivers.
Sandgerði Museum
Gerðavegur 1, Sandgerði.
Until February 7, 2008
Polar Adventures
Exhibition on the life and work of the
French polar explorer, scientist and
doctor Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
Jónas Viðar Gallery
Kaupvangsstræti 12, Akureyri
Fri.-Sat. 13-18
www.jvs.is/jvgallery.htm
Akureyri Art Museum
Kaupvangsstræti 12, Akureyri
Tue.-Sun. 12-17
www.listasafn.akureyri.is
Jun 30 – Aug 19
Fjallið / The Mountain
Georg Guðni retrospective
DaLí Gallery
Brekkugata 9, Akureyri
Mon.-Sat. 14-18
www.daligallery.blogspot.com
Current exhibition:
Dagrún Mattíasdóttir exhibition
GalleriBOX
Kaupvangstræti 10, Akureyri
www.galleribox.blogspot.com
Current exhibition:
Birta Guðjónsdóttir exhibition
Films
Die Hard 4
Borgarbíó, Háskólabíó, Laugarásbíó, Reg-
nboginn, Smárabíó, Sambíóin Keflavík
Fantastic Four 2
Borgarbíó, Laugarásbíó, Regnboginn,
Sambíóin Keflavík, Smárabíó
Hostel: Part 2
Sambíóin Keflavík, Smárabíó
Shrek 3
LAugarásbíó, Sambíóin Akureyri, Sam-
bíóin Álfabakka, Sambíóin Keflavík, Sam-
bíóin Kringlunni, Smárabíó
The Last Mimzy
Smárabíó
Ocean’s 13
Sambíóin Akureyri, Sambíóin Álfabakka,
Sambíóin Kringlunni
Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World’s End
Sambíóin Akureyri, Sambíóin Álfabakka,
Sambíóin Kringlunni
Zodiac
Sambíóin Álfabakka
Code Name the Cleaner
Sambíóin Kringlunni
28 Weeks Later
Regnboginn
Premonition
Borgarbíó, Regnboginn
The Hoax
Regnboginn
Blind Dating (June 29)
Evan Almighty (July 4)
The Lookout (July 6)
Harry Potter 5 (July 11)
Movie Theatres
Regnboginn, Hverfisgata 54
101 Reykjavík, Tel. 551-9000
Háskólabíó, Hagatorg
107 Reykjavík, Tel. 525-5400
Laugarásbíó, Laugarás
104 Reykjavík, Tel. 565-0118
Smárabíó, Smáralind
201 Kópavogur, Tel. 564-0000
Sambíóin, Álfabakki 8
109 Reykjavík, Tel. 575-8900
Sambíóin, Kringlan 4-12
103 Reykjavík, Tel. 575-8900
Sambíóin Akureyri, Ráðhústorg
600 Akureyri, Tel. 461-4666
Nýja-Bíó, Hafnargata 33
230 Reykjanesbær, Tel. 421-1170
Selfossbíó, Eyrarvegur 2
800 Selfoss, Tel. 482-3007
Events
Creative Youngsters
29.06 Hitt Húsið’s Friday-Butterflies will
be flying around the city centre between
12 and 14 on June 29 to surprise as well
as entertain downtown pedestrians with
various happenings. The programme in-
cludes the band Rafhans, playing on the
roof of Bankastræti 4, dance-piece per-
formed by the OB ensemble on Lækjar-
torg, designer-group Títa on Austurvöllur,
and concerts and photography exhibition
by Slafberi at Ingólfstorg. For a full list of
performers see: www.hitthusid.is.
In support of Human Rights
30.06 The Icelandic section of Amnesty
International presents an outdoor meet-
ing at Austurvöllur on June 30, in support
of victims of torture around the globe
and to raise awareness about the use of
torture in ‘interrogations‘ of suspected
terrorists. From 13 to 17.
Saving Iceland Conference
07.07 – 08.07 The environmentalist group
Saving Iceland is organising a two-day
conference, Global Consequences of
Heavy Industry, at Hótel Hlíð in Ölfus
which is located between Hveragerði
and Þorlákshöfn. Among the lecturers
are Ómar Ragnarsson, Guðbergur Bergs-
son, Eric Duchemin and Einar Þorleifsson.
For more info see: www.savingiceland.
org/conference
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www.gljufrasteinn.is
On July 7, the Grapevine summer
concert series: Take me down to
Reykjavík City is proud to presents
a whole-day outdoor music fiesta in
the garden of bar Sirkus. Boasting a
nice stage and plenty of seats, the
garden is ideal for early gigs, which
usually attracts a thirsty crowd.
The concerts feature four acts
and start at 16:00. First to take the
stage is young electro-band Rafhans
followed by the youthful multimem-
bered bossanova-surf-pop-group
Retro Stefson, which, founded in
2005, has been catching a lot of
well-earned attention. After hours of
beer drinking, sunbathing and shop-
ping some vintage items at the Sirkus
street marked (open until 18:00), it
will be time for the latter two acts of
the day. At around 21:00, rockers in
Reykjavík! will perform their set and
the gig concludes with Ultra Mega
Technobandið Stefán, who will play
until near midnight.
Sirkus, Klapparstígur 30
Grapevine Concerts at Sirkus
Sirkus – July 7
TICKETS AT
The contemporary artist, Georg Guðni Hauks-
son, is one of the more renowned Icelandic
painters today. Born in 1961, he studied at the
Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in the early
1980s, and later at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie
in Holland. He has exhibited extensively around
the world ever since. From the beginning of
his career, he has been highly respected and
influential as he gave rise to a whole new
genre of Icelandic landscape painting in the
late 1980s.
On June 13, a retrospective featuring the
works of Georg Guðni opens at Akureyri Art
Museum where three of the museum’s galleries
are devoted thematically to the artist’s main
subject matter: mountains, valleys, and hori-
zons. Inspired by the Icelandic landscape, his
paintings are characterised by formal simplicity
with a densely layered atmospheric quality that
makes them optically engaging. “His land-
scapes, subtle yet powerful, possess a refined
sensibility not only to the Icelandic countryside
he portrays, but also to the profound emotional
and corporeal relationships with the natural
environment that stand available to us all”
the press release reads.
For this occasion, a new book on Georg
Guðni’s career will be published by the Akureyri
Art Museum. The book includes an introduc-
tion and detailed analysis of Guðni’s early ca-
reer written by Hannes Sigurðsson, Director of
the Museum, who explains that whereas the
exhibition treats Guðni’s paintings thematically
– highlighting his approach to mountains,
valleys, and horizons – the book is essentially
constructed in a chronological order with the
aim of providing an accessible overview of
Guðni’s evolution as an artist.
Georg Guðni Retrospective
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Akureyri Art Museum – June 30 - August 19
An exhibition featuring American artist Ryan
Parteka and local artists Sigríður Dóra Jóhan-
nsdóttir and Björk Guðnadóttir, recently
opened at gallery Kling & Bang. Curator Birta
Guðjónsdóttir selected the three artists and says
that they set out to use the challenging space
this small two-floored gallery has to offer to
analyze it and give it a new meaning. “Previous
exhibitions at Kling & Bang have all been curated
by the gallery’s organisers. When they asked me
to work with the space, I started thinking about
what the gallery stands for and reviewed their
previous exhibitions, which have featured very
sensational artists who have been putting on
aggressive and confrontational shows, which
I find appealing. I have though always mostly
been working with more gentle subjects so it
was logical for me to do something completely
different,” she explains.
The artists share a similar background, which
deals with subjects such as spiritual matters,
the subconscious and human instinct. In this
collaboration, they examined the exhibition
space from the inside and used its interiors as
part of the whole art piece. Björk Guðnadóttir,
for example, uses one wall to create her land-
scape drawings while Sigríður Dóra invited
immigrants to the gallery for some curious
conversations, which she reveals with a video
installation and drawings. The basement is
dedicated to Ryan Parteka and his life-sup-
port machine replica which he calls Eucrasia
/ Dyscrasia.
The exhibition will be open until July 29
and the artists will continue working inside
the space and they invite various artists to
participate in the project.
Installations at Kling & Bang
Gallery Kling & Bang – Until July 29
French photographer Alexis Zavialoff opens
an exhibition inside the fashion shop Bel-
levillle on Friday, June 29. Zavialoff, who is a
self-taught photographer, experiments with
various formats in his works. His exhibition at
Belleville is a mix of three projects, including
a series of prints presenting street-scenes,
portraits and skateboarding pictures shot in
Russia and LA. The exhibition also includes
a five-minute video entitled Pepper’s Poetic
Justice, featuring a homeless man, ‘Pepper’,
in the streets of downtown LA. The video will
be screened continuously during the shop’s
opening hours.
“The selection is quite eclectic and shows
how diverse my work can be,” Zavialoff ex-
plains, adding that the images mix well with
the atmosphere inside the small shop. “The
video may sound like a cliché, but it was never
my intention to make a film. I was working in
my studio in LA and this homeless man walked
past the building every day and paid me a visit.
I began taking pictures of him and he liked the
photos so much that he started doing a little
performance for me, which I documented on
video. But this was all very spontaneous” he
explains.
The third aspect of the project is his new
photography book, Distance, published by
Nieves Books, containing 50 pages of photo-
graphs from Russia he shot with an old-school
110 Pentax pocket camera during a recent trip
to the country. The book shows a range of
spontaneous snapshots, with landscapes and
architecture details, mixed with a few portraits.
The book is for sale at Belleville and the exhibi-
tion will be on display until September.
Photography Exhibition at Belleville
Belleville – June 29 until end of summer
Contemporary artist Anna Sigmond Guð-
mundsdóttir currently exhibits an original
and stimulating installation at the Living Art
Museum (Nylo). Opening inside the museum
in May, this is her first solo exhibition in Iceland
and it is now in its final days. Anna, who lives
in Norway, is half-Icelandic and her installa-
tions are today internationally renowned in
the art world. She has been involved in solo
as well as group exhibitions around the world
in recent years and, for example, participated
in the Manifesta 4 project, which took place
in Frankfurt in 2002.
Entitled Bread and Animals, Anna’s col-
ourful installation inside Nylo’s spacious and
raw exhibition space, divided into two large
rooms, is sort of like a giant painting, cover-
ing every inch of the walls and floors of the
museum, which understandably took days
to create. Visitors entering the museum can
immediately view drawings taken from news-
papers, encyclopaedias and novels, cuttings
from children’s books and comic books, as well
as words and sentences sprayed all over the
space in the form of graffiti. Anna Sigmond
used the Internet a great deal when prepar-
ing her project by writing diverse words and
sentences in the search engine Google to find
pictures and texts, both old images as well as
contemporary photographs, which she then
used to create her installation. This curious mix
forms a large picture that the viewer virtually
walks into and from there can try to under-
stand, or misunderstand, all the small pieces
in the large puzzle.
The exhibition will be on display until July
8 and the museum doesn’t charge admission
fee.
Anna Sigmond’s Bread and Animals
Living Art Museum – Until July 8
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