Reykjavík Grapevine - 03.06.2011, Page 52

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GALLERIES & MUSEUMS IN JUNE
Be One With The Environment
The Living Art Museum, Laugavegur 26
Runs until July 3
Free
Or go visit Carl Boutard’s exhibit at The Living Art Museum, where he has created
sculptures specifically for this installation. Carl’s pieces are often connected to
nature, science, and language. In some pieces on display, he has taken plants from
his every day environment, cast them in bronze, and made art out of them. These
abstract pieces are worth seeing, so go feel the connection between artist and
nature. SAT
Solaris 2.0
Harpa—Silfurberg, Ingólfsgarður Austurbakki 2
June 4, 20:00
3.500 ISK
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Krakow writer Stanislaw
Lem’s novel ‘Solaris’, and this should be celebrated. Luckily, the masterful Ben Frost
and Daníel Bjarnason have created an ambitious project doing just that, with the
help of one of Poland’s leading orchestras, Sinfonietta Cracovia. And, guess what:
they’re bringing it to Harpa!
‘Music For Solaris’ was premiered at the Unsound Festival in Krakow last year
(and then staged at Unsound New York in April) to critical acclaim. Now we’re get-
ting it in Reykjavík, and this is exciting.
For 29 string players, two percussionists, prepared piano, guitars and elec-
tronics, ‘Music For Solaris’ has its beginnings in both Lem’s original novel and
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film adaptation. The story behind it, as explained on Ben’s
MySpace (!) goes that he was never satisfied with the original score for Tarkovsky’s
film. “I always felt that Russian composer Eduard Artemyev's score compounded
the external, science fiction elements of the story rather than exploring the internal,
the human.”
After composing the music, however, Daníel and Ben were no longer interested
in screening Tarkovsky’s adaptation to it. “At the same time the idea of a blank
screen also troubled me”, says Ben, “[b]ut as soon as Brian [Eno, who selected
Frost as his protégé in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative] saw the screen
in the Krakow cinema, I could see his mind started ticking over the problem too,
and a few days later he laid out this elegant visual solution that mirrored everything
we were trying to get at aurally”.
Brian along with Nick Robertson came upon the elegant solution of manipulat-
ing Tarkovsky’s original, turning single frames of the film into a slow moving slide
show that looks as if the images are “melting” together. It is an ambitious feat to
change the music, and an equally ambitious venture to change the film itself to
suit the new music. But do you expect anything less from some of Iceland’s best,
coupled with Brian Eno?
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Our kitchen is open
11.30 – 23.30
Sundays to Thursdays and
11.30 – 24.00
Fridays and Saturdays
Must try dishes
Mink whale carpaccio
Mink whale carpaccio with fennel,
cabbage,
parmesan cheese and lemon oil.
Lobster tail and tiger prawn
Linguini
Linguini with tiger prawns, Icelandic
lobster, rucola and cherry tomatoes in
shellfish sauce.
Grilled salmon
Grilled salmon with Icelandic barley,
grilled vegetables, radishes, dill, toasted
almonds and sage butter.
Grilled minke whale
Grilled minke whale with „Brennivín“
glaze, rosemary potatoes and grilled
vegetables.
White chocolate skyr panna cotta
With Limoncello gel and oat crumble.
UNO | Hafnarstræti 1-3 | 101 Reykjavík | Tel. 561 1313 | uno.is
See you soon ... A presto
UNO – cucina italiana is an Italian
restaurant located in central
Reykjavík. Experience a fusion of
Italian and Icelandic flavours served
in a casual and vibrant environment.