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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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SUMMARY:Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson: By-form
DESCRIPTION:The artwork “By-form”\, that Sigurður Árni shows on Gallery Sign is a lit-up plexiglass. It’s as if the sign has been enclosed inside a perforated plexiglass vitrine\, casting coloured shadows onto the sign itself.  \nAs usual the show opens at the winter solstice\, the shortest day of the year 21. December and stays open until the summer solstice\, in June. The work is lit day in\, day out\, but daylight and different seasons alter its function. Changes in light\, even the lights from passing cars or the evening sun have effect and allow the work to reform and be everchanging. \nSigurður Árni has shaped the concept “by-form” in relation to his obsession with shadows. The word can be understood as an addition to a reflection\, mirroring or a shadow of a material object. You could venture even further and view any painting as a byform of its subject. The byforms in Sigurður Árni’s work are either painted by him or left blank on a painted surface. They also appear in his multilayered drawings on transparent paper\, in found photographs which he extends by sketching\, in his photo works\, book works and even sculptures and installations. The byforms come to life in the space around his aluminium\, glass or Plexiglas bas-reliefs. This different approach often merges in paintings which appear as bas-reliefs or three-dimensional works which appear painted. This game of deception further expands our perception\, tests the limit of what we perceive and the boundless imagination which we use to fill in the blanks. Here\, the artist has started a dialogue far beyond a topical or transient landscape tradition\, echoing the tradition of the painting from its beginning. Though a painting is in itself an extremely thin surface\, it can portray and hint at every possible width of the physical and imaginary world.  \nExtract from a text by Markús Þór Andrésson\, “Expanse” \nSigurður Árni Sigurðsson has been active as an artist since 1991\, when he completed his studies at the Institut des Hautes Études en Art Plastiques in Paris\, France. His works have been the subject of over fifty solo exhibitions and have been a part of numerable group shows. His works can be seen in the collections of all the leading art museums in Iceland\, as well as in various public and private collections throughout Europe. Some of Sigurður Árni’s most prominant work has been installed in public areas such as the Sultartanga Hydroelectric Power Plant in Iceland (“Sun Wave”\, 2000)\, the Hlíð Care home in Akureyri\, Iceland (“Ljós í skugga”\, 2006)\, the National Bank of Iceland in Reykjavik (“Samhengi”\, 2004)\, and the town of Loupian in the south of France (“L’Eloge de la Nature”\, 2011). Sigurður Árni represented Iceland at the 1999 Venice Biennale\, and in 2000\, when Reykjavik was a European Capital of Culture\, one of his works was chosen as the culture year’s emblem and last year an exhibition of Sigurður Árni’s works was opened\, reviewing the artist’s career from the beginning to the present day at the Reykjavík Art Museum. \n 
URL:https://old.icelandicartcenter.is/exhibition/sigurdur-arni-sigurdsson-by-form/
LOCATION:Gallery Sign\, Dugguvogur 3\, Reykjavík\, 104\, Iceland
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