Reykjavík Grapevine - 29.08.2014, Blaðsíða 49

ART
OPENINGS AND ONGOING
August 29-Sept 11
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Opening
Art67
30x30
This is a group exhibition by LITKA
Myndlistarfélag ("LITKA Art
Association") with works by 58
member artists. There will be 50
paintings on 30x30 canvases (see
what they did there?), and the last
eight will be watercolour artists.
Opens September 2
Runs until September 30
Hafnarborg
Track
Track brings together works of
interesting artists who are known
for tackling abstract experiences in
a tangible and impressive way. The
exhibition showcases Icelandic artists
Daníel Magnússon, Guðrún Hrönn
Ragnarsdóttir, Ívar Brynjólfsson, Ívar
Valgarðsson, Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir
and Þóra Sigurðardóttir.
Opens August 29
Runs until October 19
Harbinger
The Context Collection
Anna Líndal's new exhibit will be
showing things out of context, like
apples, plastic from the sea, diaries
and moss. All of them, despite their
vague origins, will have an emotional
point of contact, brought about by
the survey methods she used to
collect them.
Opens August 30
Runs until September 13
Kunstschlager
Isolation
Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir is showing
her stuff. She likes to combine text
with objects in unique ways, and we
expect this will be no different.
Opens September 6
Runs until September 20
Týsgallerí
Mót/Print
Artist Karlotta Blöndal will be
showing her works at Týsgallerí.
Her work is typically text heavy and
explores the notion of language.
Opens September 4
Runs until September 28
Wind And Weather Gallery
It’s Over
Artist Erica Eyres’ work is primarily
concerned with narrative, and is
realized through series of drawings,
videos, and sculptures. Most recently,
she has been developing a body of
ceramic wigs, balloons and gloves
that are are rendered flat.
Opens September 1
Runs until October 30th
Ongoing
Anarkía
The Erotic In Figure And Landscape
The Ukrainian Serhiy Savchenko
primarily works with figurative
paintings and landscapes, as well as
a vivid eroticism reminiscent of Caim
Soutine.
Runs until August 31
From Pragmatism Of Kaizimir
Malewich To Godless Case
The Belorussian Alexandrs Zabavchik
is very focused on tranquility, and
he works a lot with the colour white,
and in this exhibit he examines the
possibility of creativity and art in a
world without god.
Runs until August 31
Árbær Museum
A guided tour in English through this
open air museum, which consists of
twenty buildings happens daily at
13:00. Admission 1,100 ISK.
On permanent view
Art67
By The River
With her third paintings exhibit at
Art67, Margrét H. Hauksdóttir's new
gallery focuses on rivers which are
inspired by her time fly-fishing and
lounging by riverbanks.
Runs until August 31
ASÍ Art Gallery
Sniffer
This traveling piece takes over all of
ASÍ, having just come from Glasgow.
In it, a creature inspired by Oliver
Twist and called Sniffer has come to
life. His story is told and it’s pretty
weird.
Runs until September 7
Ladies, Beautiful Ladies
Birgir Birgisson follows up on the
questions at the heart of the politics
of representation, addressed through
the visual negotiations of blondes
in our cultural environment. This
exhibition presents a variety of works
that reach from painting on canvas
to installation to works on paper
and connects them to the issue of
how identities are made, shaped,
distributed and retold.
Runs until December 31
Café Flora
A Moment
Christine Gísladóttir’s still-life
photo exhibition ‘A Moment’ is an
ode to bygone times, inspired by
Dutch artists such as Vermeer and
Rembrandt, as well as Japanese
philosophy which focuses on the
beauty in imperfections. The photos
were a part of her final project at The
School Of Photography.
Runs until September 5
The Culture House
This exhibit showcases principal
medieval 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
Sigurðsson
This exhibit explores the life
of Icelandic national hero Jón
Sigurðsson, made especially
accessible to children, families and
school groups.
On permanent view
Millennium - Phase One
A selection of pieces is on view
from the collection of the National
Gallery, including a variety of works
by Icelandic artists in the last two
centuries.
On permanent view
The Library Room
The old reading room of the National
Library displays books of Icelandic
cultural history dating from the 16th
century to the present day.
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.
Wind and Weather Gallery
Hverfisgata 37 (E5) | Sept 1-Oct 7 | all day | ISK Free!
Wigs, Gloves, Balloons, Oh My!!!
'It’s Over' by Erica Eyres
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
Gallerí Fold
Karl Hall show
Karl Hall’s new art exhibit opens this
day. There are 13 large oil paintings
made in the last year, depicting plants
and animals with strong colours
and abstract themes like the human
relationship with nature.
Runs until September 31
Pure Evil Nightmare
British wall artist Pure Evil has come
to Reykjavík and has infiltrated the
city. He takes famous faces, like those
of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, and
Audrey Hepburn, and turns them into
a nightmare. He’s also left some works
all over the city for people to find, if
that’s your kind of thing.
Runs until August 31
Gallerí Skilti
Pura Vida
British artist S Mark Gubb went to
Costa Rica, got inspired by the casual
atmosphere and the concept of “pura
vida,” the catchall phrase for positivity.
So he brought it to Reykjavík with a
sign that points anyone in the right
direction to find their own Pura Vida,
or good life.
Runs until December 15
Gljúfrasteinn
"Fín frú, sendill og allt þar á milli"
This exhibition features photos, works
and audio clips of the museum's
creator, Auður Sveinsdóttir, Halldór
Laxness's wife. She played many roles
at the museum, as a fine lady, running
errands and making everything work.
Runs until September 28
Hverfisgallerí
Selfsame
This exhibition of new works by Bjarki
Bragason, Claudia Hausfeld and
Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir focuses on
definitions of objecthood and different
approaches in surveying a site. The
starting point of their conversation
was a mound of rust mimicking a
stone sitting on a beach at the place
of a former garbage tip in western
Reykjavík, and the rest of the work
flourishes from there.
Runs until October 4
Erica likes to express her ideas through various media, like video,
sculpture and drawings, and in ‘It’s Over’ she explores the idea
of costume and disguise. Ceramic wigs and gloves and balloons
are deflated without a human touch to hold them up, calling to
mind relief sculpture like in the friezes of Greco-Roman buildings.
Minus the whole Greco-Roman thing, of course. As the items
cannot be worn by people—or by anything for that matter—and in
their flatness act as objects tossed aside, one is forced to ponder:
“What are they for?”
Only one way to find out. RSL