Artists Respond to Place is the name of an exhibition opening in New York's Scandinavia House focusing on the relationship of Icelandic artists to the landscape of their country. Iceland is of course one of the most geologically dynamic places on the globe. The newest example being the ongoing Holuhraun eruption in the central highlands.
The exhibition features eleven of Iceland’s leading contemporary artists whose works cover a broad range of formal approaches and media, including painting, photography, sculpture, site-specific wall drawings, and video installations.
In Scandinavia House's introduction to the exhibition Icelandic artists are described as having attuned to perpetual environmental flux, to physical changes in the land brought on by shifting geologic plates and volcanic eruptions, and the alternating solar rhythms of summer’s unending daylight and winter’s unsparing darkness. They have a heightened awareness of the environment as a dynamic, living entity—a place of extremes and dualities. With its fiery volcanoes, glacial ice caps, powerful waterfalls, and unpredictable, often-violent atmospheric conditions, the austere, beguiling landscape of Iceland functions as muse and material for many Icelandic artists.
The exhibition is curated by Pari Stave and organized by the Katonah Museum, New York State, where it opened first in June. See story in The New York Times.
Artists Respond to Place features the work of Birgir Andrésson, Guðrún Einarsdóttir, Olafur Eliasson, Georg Guðni Hauksson, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Guðjón Ketilsson, Eggert Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, and Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir.
The exhibition will be open from Friday, October 10, through Saturday, January 10, 2015. Free admission.
Scandinavia House is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States, offering a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of the Nordic countries. It is located at 58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street, New York, NY
Artists Respond to Place is the name of an exhibition opening in New York's Scandinavia House focusing on the relationship of Icelandic artists to the landscape of their country. Iceland is of course one of the most geologically dynamic places on the globe. The newest example being the ongoing Holuhraun eruption in the central highlands.
The exhibition features eleven of Iceland’s leading contemporary artists whose works cover a broad range of formal approaches and media, including painting, photography, sculpture, site-specific wall drawings, and video installations.
In Scandinavia House's introduction to the exhibition Icelandic artists are described as having attuned to perpetual environmental flux, to physical changes in the land brought on by shifting geologic plates and volcanic eruptions, and the alternating solar rhythms of summer’s unending daylight and winter’s unsparing darkness. They have a heightened awareness of the environment as a dynamic, living entity—a place of extremes and dualities. With its fiery volcanoes, glacial ice caps, powerful waterfalls, and unpredictable, often-violent atmospheric conditions, the austere, beguiling landscape of Iceland functions as muse and material for many Icelandic artists.
The exhibition is curated by Pari Stave and organized by the Katonah Museum, New York State, where it opened first in June. See story in The New York Times.
Artists Respond to Place features the work of Birgir Andrésson, Guðrún Einarsdóttir, Olafur Eliasson, Georg Guðni Hauksson, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Guðjón Ketilsson, Eggert Pétursson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, and Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir.
The exhibition will be open from Friday, October 10, through Saturday, January 10, 2015. Free admission.
Scandinavia House is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States, offering a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of the Nordic countries. It is located at 58 Park Avenue @ 38th Street, New York, NY
