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Kristín Þorkelsdóttir
20 May, 2021–30 December, 2021
Fáir hér á landi hafa skilað af sér jafn mörgum listaverkum, sem tekið er sem sjálfgefnum, og hönnuðurinn Kristín Þorkelsdóttir. Verk hennar hafa verið hvað mest áberandi við hinar hversdagslegustu aðstæður, svo sem inni í ísskápum landsmanna, ofan í töskum þeirra eða við hefðbundið borðhald.
Þó má einnig finna verk Kristínar á jafn óaðgengilegum stöðum og í læstum öryggishirslum Seðlabanka Íslands. Enda er Kristín bæði hönnuður fjölmargra umbúða um matvæli og höfundur núgildandi peningaseðlaraðar, sem hún vann að ásamt hönnuðinum Stephen Fairbairn.
Þá hefur Kristín hannað urmul auglýsinga, bækur og ýmis þjóðþekkt merki, sem mörg hafa verið í notkun í yfir fimm áratugi.
Að baki hvers þjóðþekkts verks Kristínar liggja ógrynni af skissum, tilraunum og pælingum, sem ekki hefur verið safnað saman til sýningar fyrr en nú.
Á sýningunni má því sjá kunnuleg og áður óséð verk, sem samanlagt umbreyttu smátt og smátt ungri myndlistarkonu í einn helsta brautryðjanda landsins á sviði grafískrar hönnunar. Sýningin opnar 20. maí kl. 12 í Hönnunarsafni Íslands.
Few designers in Iceland have created as many works that are present in Icelanders’ daily life as Kristín Þorkelsdóttir. They can be seen in the most mundane of places—in refrigerators, inside bags or at the dinner table—or in locations as inaccessible as the Central Bank’s vaults. Kristín is the designer behind the packaging of many popular foods, as well as the series of banknotes currently in use in Iceland, which she created together with the designer Stephen Fairbairn. Kristín has also designed countless advertisements, books, and nationally known logos, many of which have been in use for over five decades.
Kristín was born in the east of Reykjavík in 1936. As a child and teenager, she aimed to become an artist. She started working independently as a graphic designer, however, immediately after graduating from the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in 1956. She and her husband, Hörður Rafn Daníelsson, had met as teenagers and had children early.
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Kristín doubted that an artistic career would allow her to make a living. In design, she found both a way to earn a living and a creative outlet. She eventually went on to establish one of the largest advertising agencies in the country, AUK hf. (1967–1994).
Behind each of Kristín’s nationally known works are a myriad of sketches, experiments and reflections, which have not been shown publicly until now. This exhibition therefore presents both familiar and previously unseen works, which together gradually turned a young artist into one of the pioneers of Icelandic graphic design.
