Finnur Arnar Arnarsson
dal 12/1/2005 al 26/2/2005
Segnalato da
12/1/2005
Finnur Arnar Arnarsson
i8 Gallery (old location), Reykjavik
From the beginning of his career the artist has been particularly drawn to generic circumstances where art is displayed in a volatile state, scarcely visible at the narrow margin between art and life. Taking advantage of unaesthetic, real-life situations, experienced in absence of artistic ambience, he excelled in drawing attention to neglected pores and corners where his art was fully integrated into a perfectly commonplace ensemble.
From the beginning of his career Finnur Arnar Arnarson (b.1965) has been particularly drawn to generic circumstances where art is displayed in a volatile state, scarcely visible at the narrow margin between art and life. Taking advantage of unaesthetic, real-life situations, experienced in absence of artistic ambience, he excelled in drawing attention to neglected pores and corners where his art was fully integrated into a perfectly commonplace ensemble. In these initial works, in the early nineties, he used to reconstitute a given moment in a series of site specific works showing an unusual daring in furthering the limits of art.
Finnur Arnar's double-edged approach appeared as early as his career and has ever since given his works an extra dimension of contradictory nature. They can be interpreted in a certain way but that does not necessarily prove that that is what they are about altogether. Behind an obvious denotation of a general kind lies a hidden connotation of a particular nature easily opposing that which seems so obvious, most often referring to art and artistic practice in a manner which emphasizes its unusual nature as a professional activity.
i8 galleri
Klapparstigur 33 101 Reykjavik Iceland