Icelandic Art featuring the work of Birgir Andrésson, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Kristján Gudmundsson and Thor Vigfusson
| Mar ’08 | Apr |
| 21 | 26 |
Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present work by four artists from Iceland. The work brings together some of the finest aspects of Iceland’s cultural heritage, in particular it’s literary and linguistic trademark. The style used by these artists is concise, clear and direct. Only the essentials have been retained. The exhibition opens with a reception on March 21st and runs through April 26, 2008.
The mid-century preoccupation with poetry and storytelling forms an important background to the development of Icelandic conceptual art—characterized as “poetic-conceptualism” within Iceland’s arts community this provides an opportunity to consider the ways in which Icelandic artists make use of Icelandic literary traditions within the context of post-conceptual practices.
Birgir Andrésson (b. 1955) The exhibition will showcase “portrait” text works by the artist. Born in the Westmann Islands in 1955, Andrésson went on to study visual arts at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and then received a graduate degree from the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht in Holland.