Reykjavík Grapevine - 09.01.2015, Blaðsíða 51

Experience
Icelandic Art
and Design
Kópavogur Art Museum
/ Gerðarsafn
Hamraborg 4, Kópavogur
Open 11–17 / Closed on Mondays
www.gerdarsafn.is
Hönnunarsafn Íslands
/ Museum of Design
and Applied Art
Garðatorg 1, Garðabær
Open 12–17 / Closed on Mondays
www.honnunarsafn.is
Hafnarborg
/ The Hafnarfjordur Centre
of Culture and Fine Art
Strandgata 34, Hafnarfjörður
Open 12–17 / Thursdays 12–21
Closed on Tuesdays
www.hafnarborg.is
Route 40 takes you to
on your way to the Blue Lagoon
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Development
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Valgerður Hafstað
Gerdur's Studio
Route 40
Open 11:30-22:00
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101 Reykjavík Tel. 553 1500 seabaron8@gmail.com
An absolute
must-try!
Saegreifinn restaurant (Sea Baron) is like none other
in Iceland; a world famous lobster soup and a diverse
fish selection.
Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum
‘An Artist at the Saga Sites’ by
Jóhanness Larsen
The Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum is
presenting 25 drawings by the Danish
painter Johannes Larsen from his
journeys to Iceland in 1927 and 1930 in
the upper hall.
Opens January 31
Runs until March 29
‘Selected Works' by Sigurjón
Ólafsson
Selected works by the namesake of the
museum will be on display.
Opens January 31
Runs until March 29
Spark Design Space
‘Cityscape’ by Snorri Þór
Tryggvason, Pétur Stefánsson and
Snorri Eldjárn Snorrason
At a time when there were no job
opportunities for architects in Iceland,
three graduates from the Iceland
Academy of the Arts decided to hand
draw and watercolor a detailed map of
the city center of Reykjavík. The map took
3,000 hours to draw, paint and assemble
and is without a doubt one of the most
charming city maps you will find. The
project was to become the base for their
company, Borgarmynd, which specializes
in illustrated maps, event branding,
infographics, and more.
Opens January 15
Runs until March 4
Ongoing
Better Weather Window Gallery
‘Between Persistence and
Cessation’ by Claudia Hausfeld
Claudia’s work often features the house
as a symbol. In this piece, the house
that is constructed onto the mountain is
unfinished. It is partly rock, partly man
made structure, oscillating between a
building and its opposite.
Runs until January 29
Arion Bank
'Speglað landslag' by Hrafnkell
Sigurðsson
In this exhibition (which translates
as "Flipped Landscape"), Hrafnkell
Sigurðsson examines the relationship
between man and nature, showing man-
made structures that resemble nature,
and natural phenomena that look human.
Runs until February 20
City Library, Spöng
‘Washed Up’ by Gunnhildur
Þórðardóttir
Gunnhildur’s 2D and 3D works consist
of numerous items that have been
discarded and washed up on the shore,
or extra materials that she puts to good
use. The works are, in a way, transformed
from junk and litter into pieces of art.
Sustainability is the name of the game
in this exhibit, and its title is a reference
to a poem Gunnhildur wrote about
sustainability and our consumer-fuelled
society.
Runs until April 12
The Coocoo’s Nest
‘Reykjavík Los Angeles’ by Sigurður
Páll Pálsson
This solo photography exhibition features
a selection of black and white works by
Sigurður Páll Pálsson, which draws on
surrealism through photography.
Runs until February 7
The Skin Of A House Crawls Into Its Own Skeleton
‘Between Persistence and Cessation’ by Claudia
Hausfeld
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 Verkstæði
Artist Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson has an
exhibition from his early years (1977-
1980) that were described by reviewers
at the time as being “the last paintings
made in Iceland” because of how bad
they were. Undaunted, or perhaps
encouraged by such words, Helgi has
brought those very same works back and
is putting them on display.
Runs until January 11
Hverfisgallerí
‘Nonsicles and New Fur-lings’ By
Shoplifter
The Fur-lings are a continuation of
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka Shoplifter’s
interest in using human and synthetic hair
that make up her new furry “paintings”
and the so-called Nonsicle sculptures
made with a combination of found
materials the artist obsessively collects.
The work dwells in the gray area between
beauty and ugliness, challenging and
questioning our pre-conceived ideas of
beauty and art.
Runs until January 31
i8
‘Snið / Transects’ by Eggert
Pétursson & Friederike Von Rauch
The two person show features works
by Icelandic painter Eggert Pétursson
and German photographer Friederike
Von Rauch. Their works share certain
similarities such as the reduction
in material content, stillness and
concentration.
Runs until January 31
The Icelandic Phallological
Museum
The museum contains a collection of
more than 215 penises and penile parts
belonging to almost all the land and sea
mammals that can be found in Iceland.
There's also a penis sculpture honoring
the Icelandic men's handball team,
though, confusingly, it does not feature
their actual penises.
On permanent view
In her work, artist Claudia Hausfeld employs a variety of mediums
to raise questions about the representation of images, the value of
objects, memory and the loss of it, and our understanding of what
we see. A recurring image in her work is the house. The frame of
the hut, which serves as a symbol for shelter and home, is made
of wood and bears its own outer layer, which serves to absorb
elements that belong outside, on its inside. Claudia studied
photography at the Zürich University of the Arts, and received her
BFA from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2012. Since then, she
has presented her work at exhibitions in Switzerland, Denmark,
and Iceland. AM
ART
ONGOING
Better Weather Window Gallery
Laugavegur 41 (F6) | Jan 1 - 29 All Day | Free!