Considerable
Listasafn Árnesinga / LÁ Art Museum |
2017-09-23 - 2018-02-25
“Considerable“ was the title of the exhibition of Guðrún Tryggvadóttir and Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir at the LÁ Art Museum that opened on September 23rd 2017 and ran until February 25th 2018.
This exhibition showcases the art of Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir and Guðrún Tryggvadóttir, who have established a place for themselves with their own personal, consistent view of the world. Brynhildur works with fantastical creatures, mountains and landscape, in concrete and glass among other media, while Guðrún paints the reality of generations and energy in time and space with oils on canvas.
Most of the works on display have been made in the past three years, while the exhibition also includes pieces from the start of the artists’ careers, that manifest the Zeitgeist of the 1980s, when the form and content of their work expressed views contrary to the conventional art of that time.
Curator is museum director Inga Jónsdóttir and art historian Heiðar Kári Rannversson writes an article in the catalogue published about the exhibtion. See the catalogue.
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Guðrún Tryggvadóttir
B. 1958. Guðrún studied art at the Iceland College of Arts and Crafts 1974-78, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris 1978-79 and Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich 1979-83.
She has held many exhibitions in Iceland, Europe and the USA, and received many awards, both for her art and for her work in innovation; she has been a pioneer in various fields, founding and running an art school and creative design studio, which she ran for years in Germany and Iceland. Guðrún also launched the environmental website nature.is, which she managed for about ten years; she has played a leading role in environmental education since her return to Iceland in 2000.
Today Guðrún works mainly in oils on canvas: her paintings have an ideological basis and are very personal, with the focus on giving visual form to time and matter, and the relationship between generations and the universe. Works by Guðrún are in public collections in Iceland and other countries.
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