Iceland review - 2013, Qupperneq 10

8 ICELAND REVIEW
0302
Culture Club
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Ólöf the SongStreSS
SuDDen elevation
Ólöf arnalds
one little indian

released by one little Indian, Sudden
elevation is the third studio album by Ólöf
arnalds, and her first that’s entirely in
english. Ólöf is a great songwriter and her
voice “can silence a room,” as the new york
times put it. Ólöf’s floating voice harmonizes
with the harmonies that are so simple and
complex at the same time. Inspired by folk
music, the album’s strongest cut is the
opener ‘German Fields.’ Sudden elevation
is an album which further elevates Ólöf’s
indie folk rock career and it looks as if she
will reach new heights still, even after having
been named one of Q magazine’s ‘Most
exciting people in Music’ in 2010. PS
anniverSarY
Kirsuberjatréð
vesturgata 4, 101 Reykjavík
kirs.is
annual Celebration
of the artS
reyKjavíK arts Festival 2013
art, Space & audience
museums and galleries in the
Reykjavík metropolitan area
a golden
Short at
CanneS
the 27th annual reykjavík arts Festival, entitled ‘art,
space & audience,’ was celebrated in Iceland’s
capital May 17 to june 2 with a wealth of concerts,
performances and exhibitions. If you missed the
festival, fret not, for a number of exhibitions will run
through june or even throughout the summer. these
include art = text = art by 50 international artists
from the collection of sally & Wynn Kramarsky at
the hafnarborg Center of Culture and Fine arts,
Disappearances by 40 artists from 15 small european
states at the national Gallery of Iceland, collages by
Magnús Kjartansson at hverfisgallerí, the Sound of
Bugle in a Shoebox, a performance retrospective by
Magnús pálsson, and interval by huginn Þór arason
& andrea Maack, an exhibition on fragrance, at
reykjavík art Museum, hafnarhús. ESA
Design store Kirsuberjatréð, run by 11 artists
and designers, celebrated its 20th anniversary in
late april. the former general store was housed
in the 130-year-old building on Vesturgata
4, downtown reykjavík, for 105 years until
daily goods were exchanged for arts, crafts
and design in 2003 when a group of Icelandic
women opened Kirsuberjatréð on the premises.
Wisely they did not change the interior, which
now celebrates its 90th anniversary. the arts
and the crafts, though, are brand new. PS
04
Icelandic short film hvalfjörður by director Guðmundur arnar
Guðmundsson received the special Distinction ex-aequo award
for shorts at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, May 15-26. the film,
named after a fjord in southwest Iceland, features the relationship
between two brothers who live at a small farm with their parents
and the dramatic events which change their lives forever. ágúst
Örn B. Wigum and einar jóhann Valsson play the main parts.
Guðmundur also wrote the screenplay and produces the film along
with anton Már svansson. Co-producers are sagafilm, Icelandic
filmmaker rúnar rúnarsson and Darin Mailand-Mercado and jacob
oliver Krarup from Denmark. this is the third time that an Icelandic
short competes in the shorts category at Cannes. ESA
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