Herbert Read described it as the moment of liberation. ‘Once it is accepted’, he wrote, ‘that the plastic imagination has at its command, not the fixities of a perspectival point of view…but the free association of any visual elements (whether derived from nature or constructed apriori), then the way is open to an activity which …
Herbert Read described it as the moment of liberation. ‘Once it is accepted’, he wrote, ‘that the plastic imagination has at its command, not the fixities of a perspectival point of view…but the free association of any visual elements (whether derived from nature or constructed apriori), then the way is open to an activity which …
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir Schemes 11.03.-22.04.2023
Andakt á vinnustofu Heklu Daggar Stígur litur feilspor? Dansar alda vitlaust? Hvenær dansar hafið vitlaust? Aldrei? Hvernig lít ég út í smásjá geimveru? Einsog mynstur? Hvers vegna gengur hugarþel í veg fyrir sjálft sig? Gengur hugarþel í veg fyrir sjálft sig? Er klúður venjulegt, reglulegt dansatriði? Pínulítið öðruvísi strik? Hvað er framfaraskref? Er framfaraskref alda …
The Impact of the Anthropocene on the Colours of the Earth Stone grey, ochre yellow, rust red – the geological materials in Kristján Steingrímur’s paintings remind us that artists have experimented with clay and minerals since the dawn of time. The earliest cave painters used ochre, umber, sienna, manganese and kaolin. They crushed stones and …
Ummerki mannaldar í litbrigðum jarðarinnar Steingrátt, okkurgult, ryðrautt, – jarðefnin í málverkum Kristjáns Steingríms minna á að listamenn hafa gert tilraunir með leir og steinefni frá örófi alda. Elstu hellamálarar notuðu okkur, umber, sienna, manganese og kaolin. Þeir muldu steininn og blönduðu jarðveg með feiti og öðrum lífrænum bindiefnum til að festa litinn á flötinn. …
Haustið 2018 hóf Einar Falur skrásetningu sjónrænnar dagbókar sem hann hugðist þá ljúka á 18 mánuðum. En þegar hillti undir enda verksins þá skall á heimsfaraldur Covid-19 veirunnar og heimurinn breyttist. Ljósmyndarinn teygði þá dagbókina upp í 20 mánuði, þar sem faraldurinn hafði áhrif á fjölskyldu hans, eins og alla aðra, og varð mikilvægur þáttur …
Einar Falur Ingólfsson: Um tíma – Dagbók tuttugu mánaða Read More »
In fall 2018 Einar Falur started working on a visual diary he planned to wrap up in 18 months. But when it came towards the planned end the Covid-19 pandemic hit and changed the world. And the diary stretched to 20 months as it affected the life of the photographer‘s family, like everybody else, and …
Einar Falur Ingólfsson: About Time – Diary of Twenty Months Read More »
BERG Contemporary welcomes you to a new exhibition, stance I linear narratives, which aims to shed light on the various methodologies of line-drawing. Works by: Áslaug Íris Katrín Friðjónsdóttir, Hanna Dís Whitehead, Haraldur Jónsson, Finnbogi Pétursson, Páll Haukur and Sirra Sigrún Sigurðardóttir. Scribble, witch-hunt When a child receives a color or pencil in hand for …
