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SUMMARY:Geometry
DESCRIPTION:Abstract geometry was a product of experimental and progressive ideas on the nature and potential of art. The movement came like a meteor into Icelandic cultural life at the beginning of the 1950s and propelled a radical shift in the nation’s art history. The movement was a response to the prevailing aesthetics\, seeking to find new modes of creativity and expression. Geometry was not an isolated art movement\, but a new attitude\, interpretation and expression\, in which the painting was no longer contained by the frame\, the fusion of art forms was possible and the city became the setting for cultural change. \nThe artists presented are Ásgerður Búadóttir\, Ásmundur Sveinsson\, Benedikt Gunnarsson\, Eiríkur Smith\, Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir\, Gerður Helgadóttir\, Guðmunda Andrésdóttir\, Guðmundur Benediktsson\, Hafsteinn Austmann\, Hjörleifur Sigurðsson\, Hörður Ágústsson\, Karl Kvaran\, Kjartan Guðjónsson\, Kristín Jónsdóttir frá Munkaþverá\, Málfríður Konráðsdóttir\, Nína Tryggvadóttir\, Skarphéðinn Haraldsson\, Svavar Guðnason\, Sverrir Haraldsson\, Vala Enard Hafstað\, Valtýr Pétursson & Þorvaldur Skúlason. \nCurators: Brynja Sveinsdóttir & Cecilie Gaihede.\nExhibition design: Hreinn Bernharðsson & Studio Studio.
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/geometry-2/
LOCATION:Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum\, Hamraborg 4\, Kópavogur\, 200\, Iceland
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Interplay of art and physics
DESCRIPTION:Resistance is an interdisciplinary exhibition that bridges the gap between visual arts and science. The works on display are key works in the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland\, that establish an interesting dialogue between art and science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. \nThe word Resistance may be read in the context of physics: the measure of a conductive material’s opposition to current flow. Resistance can also signify opposition to consumption\, which responsible citizens must learn to take onboard. In addition\, Resistance also references essential action against climate change and global warming. The arts offer people an opportunity to be influenced\, as art can touch the emotions. Works of art can raise issues which urge the observer to ask him/herself urgent questions. An artistic approach can alter the way people experience the world around them. And artists work with such factors as taste\, perception\, emotion\, conviction\, values and identity\, that are important for a society in the process of formation. Art can also invigorate the human mind\, and show the observer a diversity of viewpoints\, leading them to re-examine their ideas about the world. Addressing matters of nature from various sides facilitates change\, and the evolution of values that is vital on the journey towards a sustainable society. Where all the elements are unique\, we think things through to the end\, reflect\, and construct a new understanding. \nClearly\, a concerted effort is required in order to attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. That entails integration\, activation and creation of diverse knowledge and perspectives. It demands active participation by all\, and multifarious approaches. Unsustainable consumption by the public is a major problem in society. We must reconsider our patterns of consumption\, and resist excess. \nNothing in the world is separate. Every single thing is a link in a chain\, connected to all the other links. This global chain must remain intact. Chain reactions unite all things and processes into one whole\, thus establishing the premises for equilibrium. Everything in the world\, including the human body\, is made up of energy\, which bonds and unites in closed cycles. The world’s ecosystem is contingent upon powers connected by chain reactions\, like the cogwheels of a clockwork mechanism. If one of the cogwheels is irreversibly damaged\, the equilibrium will also be irreversibly disrupted. Energy is the foundation of all matter\, and affects everything else. The energy that forms one human being also forms all other living things.  Energy is in constant flow and always changing. Speed relates to that energy\, and is also variable. We are all bound together\, and our feelings give rise to a resonance that affects everything and everyone. All energy on earth is subject to similar natural laws\, although its character may differ. Connections\, chaos\, order\, rhythm\, volatility\, eternality and linkage are all qualities that relate to the earth’s energy field. \n\n\n\n\nArtists \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavíð Örn Halldórsson \nDodda Maggý \nEirún Sigurðardóttir \nErla Þórarinsdóttir \nEyborg Guðmundsdóttir \nFinnur Jónsson \nGerður Helgadóttir \nGuðmunda Andrésdóttir \nJóhannes Kjarval \nKarl Kvaran \nKristinn Hrafnsson \nKristján Guðmundsson \nMagnús Helgason \nRansu \nSigrid Vadingojer \nSigurður Árni Sigurðsson \nTumi Magnússon \nÞorvaldur Skúlason \n  \n\nChief Curator: Ásthildur Jónsdóttir \nCuratorial Team: Ásthildur Jónsdóttir\, Dagný Heiðdal\, Guðrún Jóna Halldórsdóttir\, Ragnheiður Vignisdóttir\, Harpa Þórsdóttir
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/resistance-interplay-of-art-and-physics/
LOCATION:The National Gallery of Iceland\, Fríkirkjuvegur 7\, Reykjavík\, 101\, Iceland
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210612
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SUMMARY:Guðmunda Andrésdóttir: Cadence
DESCRIPTION:Saturday June 12th an exhibition of Guðmunda Andrésdóttir’s works\, Cadence\, will open in Hafnarborg’s main gallery. The museum will be open from 12–5 p.m. and the director will address guests at 3 p.m. \n\n\n\nIn 1945\, Guðmunda Andrésdóttir\, then twenty-three years old\, went to see Svavar Guðnason’s exhibition at Listamannaskálinn\, where she set eyes on and was touched deeply by the artist’s abstract paintings\, later putting her experience into these words: \n\n\n\n“I was utterly befuddled when I saw that exhibition!… And then I got it into my head to start painting. It felt like a knockout. Yes\, it was indeed a fine exhibition and I went to see it again and again.”[1] \n\n\n\nMost people will probably be familiar with this kind of feeling\, as if art pierces the heart itself. Whether one happens to be standing in front of a painting at an exhibition\, listening to music\, watching a film or reading a new book\, it almost feels like opening one’s eyes at last\, having kept them closed for a long time\, finally looking upon the world and seeing everything in new light. Guðmunda herself was impacted in such a way at Svavar’s exhibition\, as portrayed by her words\, and she consequently dedicated her life to the creation of art. \n\n\n\nGuðmunda belonged to the group of artists that worked in the style of geometric abstraction in Iceland\, also participating in exhibitions with the Septem-Group\, first in 1952\, at the end of their former exhibition series\, and then again in 1974-88. Guðmunda was notably the only woman who participated in the group’s exhibitions\, but at the time\, in the postwar period\, artists\, both men and women\, went down the line of abstraction\, seeking an international language that might express universal truth\, common and comprehensible to people of all backgrounds\, in a similar way to music. \n\n\n\nThis is the first solo exhibition of Guðmunda Andrésdóttir’s work in Hafnarborg\, but the artworks on display here belong to the collection of the National Gallery of Iceland\, the Reykjavík Art Museum\, the University of Iceland\, as well as works belonging to the ASÍ Art Museum and private collectors. Exhibiting a selection of different works\, oil paintings\, watercolours\, pencil sketches and more\, one can then glean how the artist plays with each medium\, in her search for higher truth – through form\, colour\, or the combination of both. \n\n\n\nIn the artist’s work\, one can thus encounter a few intriguing contradictions\, between the poetic and the systematic\, the sensitive and the calculated\, calling into question the importance of sensing as opposed to understanding. There are\, however\, some things that demand no explanation\, much like the melody that captures the audience by the sheer power of music\, and Guðmunda’s work certainly strikes a similar chord\, balancing the rational and the emotional\, the feminine and the masculine. All in all\, Guðmunda Andrésdóttir was a person of unique character and talent and her contribution to Icelandic art history and the local artist community remains significant to this day. Without doubt\, she marched to the beat of her own drum\, in both life and work\, choosing to create her very own cadence. \n\n\n\nThe curators of the exhibition are Unnur Mjöll S. Leifsdóttir and Hólmar Hólm. \n\n\n\nGuðmunda Andrésdóttir was born in Reykjavík on the 3rd of November 1922 and died on the 31st of August 2002. She graduated from Verzlunarskóli Íslands in 1941 and was an extramural student at Konstfack in Stockholm in 1947-48\, as well as studying painting at Otte Sköld’s private school. She later moved to Paris to study art\, at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and L’Académie Ranson\, in 1951-53. Guðmunda was a leading artist in the field of abstract painting in Iceland\, being the only woman among the members of the Septem-Group\, for example. She had several private exhibitions during her career\, notably in Kjarvalsstaðir in 1990\, and participated in various group exhibitions both in Iceland and abroad. The National Gallery of Iceland\, the Reykjavík Art Museum\, The University of Iceland Art Collection\, the ASÍ Art Museum\, Gerðarsafn and Colby Art Museum in Maine\, United States\, all own artworks by Guðmunda\, as well as many private collectors around the world. \n\n\n\n[1] Einar Falur Ingólfsson\, “Þetta er að verða kvennastarf”\, Morgunblaðið\, 16th of November 1996.
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/gudmunda-andresdottir-cadence/
LOCATION:Hafnarborg Center of Culture and Fine Art\, Strandgata 34\, Hafnarfjörður\, 220\, Iceland
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