Reykjavík Grapevine - 06.06.2014, Blaðsíða 49

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OPENINGS AND ONGOING
June 6 - 19
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Opening
Art 67
Bjarnveig Björnsdóttir opens a visual art
show with several oil paintings.
Opens June 7
Runs until June 30
Iceland Academy of Arts
Everything Is Good Though Nothing
Is
Gylfi Freeland Sigurðsson opens an ex-
hibit in Kaffistofan, the student gallery
of the academy, one that focuses on
drawings, text works and symbols.
Opens June 7
Runs until June 8
Kunstschlager
Þorgerður Þórhallsdóttir’s first exhibit
uses the process of preservation to
examine how events are documented,
using footage of her grandfather, pia-
nist Gísli Magnússon, as an example.
The home recording of him rehearsing
Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto is
intertwined with his performance with
the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra,
creating a new narrative that elevates
the creative process alongside the
finished product.
Opens June 14
Runs until June 28
The National Museum
Land of the Sodium Sun
Photographer Stuart Richardson
exhibits a series of photographs on
Icelandic streetlights, their locales and
the weather.
Opens June 14
Runs until December 31
Þoka
KEEP FROZEN - Aldís Snorradóttir
Aldís Snorradóttir’s exhibit is the
second part of a mixed-media instal-
lation and an art work in process. It is
a continuation of an exhibition series
that started with KEEP FROZEN part
zero, a single-channel video piece
that has travelled the world, and KEEP
FROZEN part one, an installation ex-
hibited at De-Construct in New York.
The project also consists of a film and
a book about harbour experiences.
Opens May 31
Runs Until June 29
Ongoing
Árbær Museum
A guided tour in English through this
open air museum, consisting of 20
buildings happens daily at 13:00.
Admission 1,100 ISK.
On permanent view
Anarkía
Word
Artist Finnbogi Helgason uses writing
and words to create his paintings,
words that represent the elements
that compose human beings—Hydro-
gen, Nitrogen, Carbon and the like.
The words may not be apparent to
the casual viewer, but they make up
the paintings, and the exhibition as a
whole is a model study using words.
Runs until June 1
Ellipse
"Art is not the perfect but art is the
eternal quest, which is the purpose
of the creative process," says artist
Kristín Tryggvadóttir. Her exhibition
attempts to engage the viewer with
the forces of nature and the eternal
circulation of a continuous displace-
ment of matter which does not disap-
pear but is transformed. All matter
has its own space, visible or invisible,
and the smallest particle moved away,
leaves behind an empty space.
Runs until June 1
ASÍ Art Gallery
Eygló Harðardóttir's sculpture exhibit
sits in ASÍ's garden and is without a
title. This is the second time that Eygló
presents an outdoor sculpture like this
at ASÍ.
Runs until August 9
The Culture House
An exhibit showcasing principal me-
dieval manuscripts, such as Codices
Regii of the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda,
law codices and Christian works, and
the Icelandic Sagas.
On permanent view
Child of Hope - Youth and Jón Sig-
urðsson
Exploring the life of Icelandic national
hero Jón Sigurðsson, made particu-
larly accessible to children, families
and school groups.
On permanent view
Millennium - Phase One
A selection of pieces from the the Na-
tional Gallery's collection, the exhibit
includes a variety of works by Icelan-
dic artists from the last two centuries.
On permanent view
The Library Room
The old reading room of the National
Library displays books of Icelandic
cultural history from the 16th century
to the present day.
On permanent view
The Einar Jónsson Museum
The museum contains close to 300
artworks including a beautiful garden
with 26 bronze casts of the artist's
sculptures.
On permanent view
Gallery Fold
Nikhil Nathan Kirsh
British artist Nikhil Nathan Kirsh show-
cases a sculpture made in collabora-
tion with Ragnhild Stefánsdóttir, as
well as broken and cracked depictions
of various parts of the body.
Runs until June 17
Hafnarborg
Fancy Cake in the Sun
The exhibit displays selected graphic
prints and artistic books by Swiss art-
ist Dieter Roth, one of the most impor-
tant post-war European artists. During
his career he worked with various
mediums but the exhibition focuses on
his contributions to the print world. It
is divided into eleven periods covering
Dieter's artwork from 1957 to 1993.
Runs until June 9
Lusus Naturae
A 3D Installation featuring dream-
like and beautiful experiments with
time and events through the medium
of music, moving pictures and live
performance by Ólöf Nordal, Gunnar
Karlsson and Þuriður Jónsdóttir.
Runs until June 17
Hverfisgallerí
Mapping A Piece Of Land
Hildur Bjarnadóttir explores the concept
of painting through weaving in her
exhibition. She produced her artwork
using two methods: colouring the
thread with acrylic paint before it is
woven, and experimenting with natu-
ral plant colouring. Each plant is con-
nected to a specific place, carrying a
sort of genetic code about its location
as well as the people and fauna that
surrounded it.
Runs until June 28
i8 Gallery
The series `1s & 0s' (2011-2014) by
Ignacio Uriarte comprises 128 sheets
of A4 paper, covered in typewritten 1s
and 0s. Each sheet is typed on a dif-
ferent typewriter, which produces very
different results.
Runs until June 2
The Icelandic Phallological
Museum
The museum contains a collection of
more than two hundred and fifteen
penises and penile parts belonging to
almost all the land and sea mammals
that can be found in Iceland.
On permanent view
Kling & Bang
The Five Live Lo-Fi
In the mysterious and ambiguous zone
of the creative process, a piece is
composed of four different parts, each
representing different types of art.
Four openings take place over two
weeks. Each space, performance and
installation is like a voice. In the fourth
and last opening the piece reaches its
peak, the voices in their spatial, audio,
visual and physical surroundings
come together and create a magnifi-
cent harmony.
Runs until June 22
Kópavogur Art Museum
20th Anniversary Exhibition
Kópavogur Art Museum is curating a
new exhibition consisting of works
from the museum’s permanent collec-
tion and from the private collections
of Þorvaldur Guðmundsson and Ingib-
jörg Guðmundsóttir. On display will be
selected works by Gerður Helgadóttir,
Barbara Árnason, Magnús Á. Árnason
and Valgerður Briem and paintings by
Jóhannes S. Kjarval. Free admission
on Wednesdays.
Runs until July 27
Knitting Iceland
Whether you are a beginner or pro, you
can come knit at Laugavegur 25, 3rd
floor, every Thursday, 14:00 - 18:00.
On permanent view
Do it!
Whale
Watching
& Puffin Tours
from Reykjavík
1½ hour
Departure times: 10.00 & 14.00Sími/Tel. 861 3840
We are located in the whale watch-
ing area at Reykjavík Old Harbour.
A Guided Walking Tour
Dark Deeds
in Reykjavík
Every Thursday in June, July and August at 3pm
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Until June 29 12:00 - 17:00 | ISK Free!

Horses may have been an essential part of life just a century ago, but rarely
were they as intertwined into local culture as they were in Iceland where
they were first venerated in Norse mythology. Though they are often small
compared to other breeds and don’t quite live up to their size in the mythic
tales (much like film stars off-screen), their role in Iceland’s culture matches
up in importance. They were tamed for work, pleasure, and represent
Iceland’s tie to nature. Tölt is a gait unique to the Icelandic horse, and the
TÖLT exhibit celebrates this animal with 13 contemporary artists conveying
their own take on the beasts. AH
The Tölt of the Horse
Tölt