RSS feed from Icelandreview.com
Icelandreview.com on your mobile (Nokia)
Icelandic artist Guðjón Ketilsson opened his exhibition “Extension of the Head” in the Luise Ross Gallery in New York this week. His exhibition is scheduled to run until May 5.
From New York. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
Guðjón graduated from the Icelandic Institute of Visual Art and Industrial Art in 1978 and continued his education in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada from where he graduated in 1980.
He specializes in drawings and sculptures, and his work foregrounds the human body, its presence and absence.
He explores and works with the mundane connection we have with our body, ranging from the clothes we wear, how we style our hair and the shoes we wear, all of which that change and adjust to the size, shape, temperature and movement of the body.
Guðjón has also worked with body extensions, such as tools and the history of tools as a document of the human condition.
He was the recipient of the DV Cultural Award for Visual Art in 2000 and the Einar Jónsson Museum Award in 2001, smugan.is reports.
Guðjón has held dozens of private exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Iceland, Scandinavia, Holland, Spain, the US and Australia.
His works are the property of Iceland’s most prestigious museums as well as in open and private museum exhibitions overseas. He has participated in international workshops and has been selected to create works of public art on numerous occasions.
Click here for the official website of the Luise Ross Gallery.
JB
In 1915, women aged 40 and over were granted the right to cast a vote in all official elections held in Iceland.
more
Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
more
This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
more
An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
more
The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
more
REVIEWS
amiina
The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
more
Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
more
){kind=link}