Reykjavík Grapevine


Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.08.2017, Blaðsíða 41

Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.08.2017, Blaðsíða 41
Art Listings Events are listed by venue. For complete listings and detailed information on venues visit grapevine.is/happening. Send your listings to: listings@grapevine.is Opening DEIGLAN TRANSLATION TRANSLATIONS is a work in progress. It is an exchange between Else Ploug Isaksen and Iben West inspired by their residency in Iceland. The ex- change is like a stream of thoughts, a poetic flow. It has its own logic. • Runs on August 26, 27 at 14:00 SÍM SÍM Artists in Residency Exhibition Guest artists at the SÍM Residency at Seljavegur and Korpúlfsstaðir pres- ent what they have been working on for the past month during their stay in Iceland. • Opens on August 28 at 17:00 • Also runs on Aug 29 at 10:00 ART67 “MORPHOGENESIS” Louise le Roux presents experi- mental works in fluid acrylics. The exhibition is a result of explorations of how colours and mediums react with each other to create form. The interplay of pigment density and dispersion medium sets the stage for the experiment. • Opens on September 2, 2017 • Runs until September 30, 2017 Ongoing THE CULTURE HOUSE 'Points of View' Guests are taken on a journey through the Icelandic visual world of past and present. • On permanent view THE NATIONAL GALLERY “Art of Memory” by Woody Vasulka Woody’s work leads the viewer through a dreamlike journey fo- cused on landscapes and historical paintings. • Runs until September 1, 2017 Shoplifter Hrafnhildur Árnadóttir, aka Shoplifter, is a renowned Icelandic designer and artist whose colourful, large scale installations are eye-catching and textural. She uses brightly coloured hair fibres to create vivid, dizzying landscapes, or “hairscapes”. • Runs until October 10, 2017 Treasures of a Nation This new long-term exhibit presents a selected number of works from 1884 to 1911 of mostly Danish and Scandinavian artists. • Runs until December 31, 2017 EINAR JÓNSSON MUSEUM Permanent Exhibition The museum contains close to 300 artworks including a beautiful garden with 26 bronze casts of the artist’s sculptures. • On permanent view GALLERÝ H “Rat Race” by Haraldur Ingi Haralds- son Haraldur presents 19 paintings in- spired by politics and the addiction to power. • Runs until December 21, 2017 REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - HAFNARHÚS God, I Feel So Bad / Woman In E Ragnar Kjartansson’s retrospective features four pianists and four op- era singers playing simultaneously. Now a new performance begins: a presentation in which a glamorously staged female guitarist endlessly strums the chord e-minor. • Runs until September 24, 2017 REYKJAVÍK CITY MUSEUM MELANKÓLÍA Laufey Elíasdóttir’s photographs are extremely personal. Raw, strik- ing, and sorrowful—the exhibit is based on a poem by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir. • Runs until October 10, 2017 THE NORDIC HOUSE THE CITY BEING THE CITY BEING explores various aspects of our modern cities, with contemporary Reykjavik as the main point of reference. • Runs until November 5, 2017 -LINES- This interactive sound art installa- tion explores one of the most fun- damental parts of Western music: Lines. Come create music with your own hands using hanging sensors and electronics. • Runs until September 3, 2017 LIVING ART MUSEUM READ THROUGH The Living Art Museum presents a reading room full of domestic and international artworks in book form spanning from the 1960s until today. • Runs until September 2, 2017 HLEMMUR SQUARE Dýragarður - Zoo Úlfur Karlsson has a cartoonish style in this exhibit hosted by the Hlem- mur Square Hostel/Bar. Expect lots of colour and confusion. • Runs until August 26, 2017 REYKJAVÍK MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY Metamorphosis In Metamorphosis, Sigurgeir Sigur- jónsson compares the city to the built-up countryside to the wild wil- derness. From torn-down buildings in Reykjavík to abandoned farms, the photos are brutal, sometimes violent, but beautiful. • Runs until September 10, 2017 GERÐASAFN KÓPAVOGUR ART MUSEUM The In, With and Between Us This exhibit presents a conversation around non-linear readings of place and time, language and translation. It is a collaboration between a num- ber of international MFA students from the SVA school in New York. • Runs until August 30, 2017 AKUREYRI ART MUSEUM Selected Works By North Icelandic Artists Thirty northern Icelandic artists present a diverse range of art in- spired by the intrepid North. What is the state of Northern Icelandic arts? You’ll find out. • Runs until August 27, 2017 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ICELAND Birds, Fjord and Iceland Photo- graphs by Björn Björnsson Björn specialised in nature photog- raphy and travelled around Iceland documenting such. • Runs until September 17, 2017 Bundled Up In Blue This exhibition is based on new research on the bones and grave found in a settlement-era grave. • Runs until September 30, 2017 HÚSAVÍK MUSEUM Far Away Right Here Photographer Martin Cox spent a month at the Fjuk Art Center last year. Here he presents his work from there, inspired by the landscape and history of Húsavík. • Runs until September 1, 2017 SLÁTURHÚSIÐ Born In The Slaughterhouse Nine artists worked with various me- dia to create an exhibit linked by the idea of basic needs. Carcasses will hang from hooks and snapshots will capture prison cells, all to create a playful twist on human violence. • Runs until September 15, 2017 VERKSMIÐJAN Á HJALTEYRI Hverfing / Shapeshifting This exhibit brings together re- nowned artists from Iceland and the United States to build site-specific installations for the former herring oil factory that hosts the museum. • Runs until September 3, 2017 MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ART Nordic Angan: A Fragrance Library Of The Nordic Nature Sonja Bent and Elin Hrent have set up a workshop / showroom where they make essential oils with the goal of making a fragrance library from Icelandic flora.. • Runs until September 20, 2017 MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT AND SORCERY HDE YOUR FIRES This exhibit of the organic form, jux- taposed by characteristic Icelandic landscapes. Each photo is designed to transpose a flickering atmo- sphere, somewhere between dream and tangibility as dark figures haunt nature. • Runs until September 15, 2017 ART67 Linda Steinþórsdóttir Linda’s artwork is abstract and minimalist, all bringing you to white glaciers, black sands, barren nature, and the blood-red sky of Iceland. • Runs until August 31, 2017 REYKJAVÍK ART MUSEUM - KJARVALSSTAÐIR Louisa Matthíasdóttir: Calm The exhibition spans the whole career of Louisa Matthíasdóttir, who painted mainly Icelandic landscapes and still-lifes. • Runs until September 17, 2017 Kjarval – Key Works Kjarvalsstaðir was actually named after the artist Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval. This exhibit asks: Does the value lie in natural beauty for its own sake, in the hidden life within it, in our potential for utilisation, or in the transience? • Runs until December 31, 2017 RAMSKRAM In And Out The Window Nina Zurier presents a black and white photography and video ex- hibit focusing on presenting normal objects in an eerie light. • Runs until September 23, 2017 I8 GALLERY Eggert Pétursson Pétursson’s exhibit was inspired by the mountain Bjarnarfell, where he found ravines, vegetation and gul- lies that excited him. “Each of these ravines had their own character.” He says, “I have really dissolved every- thing, and I am not always certain whether I am painting a stone, wa- ter, the flowers or the light. The mere size of the works should allow the viewer to walk into the work, even to be enveloped by it. What is pre- sented is my mapping of a certain period and experience – a hike.” • Runs until September 20, 2017 BERG CONTEMPORARY Dodda Maggý Lingering on the verge of cinema, video art, and music composition, Dodda Maggý employs many mediums with a cross-disciplinary approach. Each piece together forms a complex organism. • Runs until October 21, 2017 August 25 - September 7 Our Picks No Corset Needed Ladies and Crinolines : Society of Female Theatre 3-5 September, Various Times, Iðnó,2.900 ISK This powerful comedy offers a glimpse into the world of music and women’s fashion from the years 1890-1990. The show has been selling out fast since its pre- mier on June 17h, so get ready for a laugh and a hit of hilarious nostal- gia. The women of Society of Female Theatre Artists make jokes and strut catwalks of various outfits, from crinolines and hoop skirts through flimsy Charleston dress- es, over fluffy tulle dresses of the fifties, the little black dress to hippie times as well as the legendary Hag- kaups-sloppur, a classic Icelandic housewife’s gown from the sixties. The show is at 17:00 and 20:00 on the 3rd and 20:00 on the 5th. ZVS Not The Lars Von Trier Film MELANKÓLÍA Reykjavík City Museum, Runs until 10 October Laufey Elíasdót- tir’s photographs are extremely personal. Raw, striking, and sorrowful—the exhibit is based on a poem by Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir. HJC One Medium? No Way Dodda Maggý BERG Cont., Runs until 21 Oct. Lingering on the verge of cinema, video art, and music composi- tion, Dodda Maggý employs many mediums with a cross-disciplinary approach. Each piece together forms a complex organism that can be perceived from different points of view. HJC Art Party! A! Performance Festival 31 August to 3 September, Various Times, Akureyri Looking to ven- ture to the North and see some great art while doing so? The A! Festival is here to save the day. HJC 41The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 15 — 2017 Organic bistro EST 2006 Tryggvagata 11,Volcano house Tel:511-1118 Mon-Sun 12:00-21:00 www.fishandchips.is
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