Two exhibitions
dal 25/1/2008 al 5/4/2008
Segnalato da
25/1/2008
Two exhibitions
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Selected sculptures from the Reykjavik Art Museum collection by Nina Saemundson (1892-1965), who created many works for public spaces. Also, a retrospective of the work of the distinguished Faroese painter Samuel Joensen-Mikines, curated by Aoalsteinn Ingolfsson: The exhibition comprises more than forty landscape paintings and portraits.
Nína Sæmundson
26 January – 6 April 2008
Selected sculptures by Nína Sæmundson (1892-1965) from the Reykjavik Art Museum collection. Jónína Sæmundsdóttir, or Nína as she called herself, spent most of her career in North America, creating many works for public spaces, including the sculpture Spirit of Achievement for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Sæmundson’s work can be found throughout Iceland; her best-known sculpture is perhaps Mother Love on Lækjargata in Reykjavík
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Mikines – A Retrospective
Curated by Aoalsteinn Ingolfsson
A retrospective of the work of the distinguished Faroese painter Samuel Joensen-Mikines. Mikines has been called the father of Faroese painting: he was the first Faroese painter to make his living by his art and the first to achieve renown on foreign soil.
His role as pioneer and exemplar for younger artists is similar to that of Jóhannes Kjarval in Icelandic visual art. This is the first retrospective of Mikines’s works in Iceland; most of the works here displayed are from the collection of the Faroe Islands Art Museum. The exhibition comprises more than forty landscape paintings and portraits from all stages of the artist’s career.
Image: Samuel Joensen-Mikines. 'Grindedrab', 1944.
Reykjavik Art Museum
Tryggvagata 17 - Reykjavik
Hours: 10-17