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6/2/2004

Two exhibitions

Art Museum Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik

Figments of love and fastidious research on private lives

An exhibition of 3 sculptors; Anna Eyjolfsdottir, Ragnhildur Stefansdottir and Thordis Alda Sigurdardottir.

They have been around, but have no complete picture of things. Either they get lost in details or they drift off into outer dimensions of the universe. All things human are of interest to them. To understand yourself you have to watch what others do, but they know that to understand other people they have to look into their own hearts. Therefore they are totally self preoccupied. By elevating the ordinary and inflating the insignificant they try to increase their own value. Their curiosity is unlimited, and when they seem to be giving off themselves they are in fact gathering material for their artistic creations. They are concerned with grand feelings and vague sensations. They are merciless in their observations, and look for traces in junk boxes as well as in fairy tales. They sense the hidden in the surface of things, the superficial in their depths, and despair in love. They convey figments of love and desire in their works of art. The real motive for their art is however to make a difference in the world.

Thing of a day
Alistair Macintyre - a private exhibition

The remote islands of Iceland and Crete are the book-ends of Europe, its oldest and youngest communities, divided by its largest expanse of land and sea. The Reykjavik-based artist Alistair Macintyre brings together four thousand miles and years of graffiti, gathered along Europe's extreme fringes, through the mechanism of a shrinking ice mass. As the ice melts the entombed inscriptions are sedimented out as rusting iron transfers, and the extinct forms that carried them become self-written epitaphs, compressed onto the skin of the paper.

Drawing has been defined as the archaeology of the act of touching a surface: Macintyre pushes this notion to an extreme, taking scales and speeds of touch - and the location of touch in Time - and polarising them out to the limits of their range. The imperceptibly slow touch-down of gravity-drawn sediment is counterbalanced by violent interventions with hammers and other implements that shatter unified forms into brittle diaspora. These in turn are woven back together by conciliatory fingers of meltwater that hold the whole performance in stasis. The result is a labyrinth of seemingly inter-connected, but independent threads, which collectively act like a sieve. Caught up in the enmeshment of of autonomous episodes is the ever-gathering fall-out from the flow of time and space that filter through, masquerading as sequence, movement and change but perhaps representing, at the final count, nothing more or less than a permanent present.

Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir
Flokagata, 105 Reykjavik
The museum is open every day except on Christmas and New Years day
Opening Hours: 10-17

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