Challenge
2014

CHALLENGE – Sustainability in Art

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In Clock of Centuries Guðrún Tryggvadóttir demonstrates the connections between generatons. Communication between generations is the building block for a society of shared responsibilities. This entails allowing each individual to grow into a functional citizen by re-evaluating and honouring the knowledge and values that underpin our feelings towards our environment and our peers. „The Clock of Centuries is a visual presentation of time and an attempt to demonstrate regeneration through direct female descent. The form is a clock; each circle is one century and the individuals of the female line placed in their birth years as far as records reach, or to the year 1685. The closest to us in time is my daughter, born in 1988, followed by myself in 1958 and my mother in 1938 and thus it proceeds further back. On average these equals three generations in a century. “ (Tryggvadóttir, 2015)

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Guðrún Tryggvadóttir (1958) has a degree in fine arts from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in München, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. Guðrún has held several exhibitions, both at home and internationally, founded and run art school, illustrated the children's book Mythological Creatures in Icelandic Folktales and in recent years she has managed the environmental website natturan.is, which she founded in 2006. She now works on a series of paintings that visualizes family connections and generational change.

Guðrún Tryggvadóttir's piece Clock of Centuries is on the right page, on page 35.
The piece on the left page, page 34 is by Hildur Bjarnadóttir.