Maj Hasager; Kynning/Introduction

Maj Hasager is the guest artist of the Gil Society in August.

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My work deals with ideas of power structures, gender, identity, public space, architecture and how these are interlinked and interpreted culturally, spatially and through representation. I use research as a work method and tools taken from the tradition of documentary in order to investigate the line between fiction and reality, questioning the documentary genre’s status as depicting the truth, and how this is and can be constituted in the public.

I consider my artistic approach research based and interdisciplinary working predominantly in text, sound, video and photography. The research is carried out in several stages on a theoretical level, on an empiric level – often taking its point of departure in interviews and collecting material such as “official” documents, personal accounts photographing and as well observing patterns of a place on site. Later all these accounts will be transformed in the creative process, where focus in the investigation of the subjects chosen are to reveal things unsaid or how dislocations and feelings of dissociation, inappropriateness and even alienation can arise when one isolates or focuses on a person or system, and one tries to understand them through the filter of the outsider. Through narrative sequences one can raise questions about the people who appear in the works, and about the viewer’s / listener’s own position as well as dealing with my own position and desire as an artist, both as a part of the work and as an intended reflection of the audience.

My intention is to continue a writing process dealing with construction of history in relation to landscape during my stay in Iceland. I will use the experiences of this residency to built up narratives that reflects places and situations elsewhere from a distance. Also through showing the video work To Whom It May Concern in an Icelandic context at Gallery Populus Tremula, which takes it point of departure in the land of Palestine and Israel, to reflect how landscapes are used as political narratives and means of control - not only through the images produced, but also in terms of the interpretation of site.

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Maj Hasager


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Íslensk þýðing kemur síðar.

MAJA WOLA: Introduction/kynning

Maja Wolna is the guest artist of the Gil Society in June.

"In my artistic project I would especially like to concentrate on the quest of human identity. I am particularly interested in this subject which requires us to asking a question what we understand through such concept. Where could we find identity or what influence does it have on us? Does consciousness of cultural identity make our life more understandable and stronger or is that an obstacle which restricts ourself?

I am polish and I grew up here but it does not mean that I solely identify with this culture. One source of inspiration me to contributing to the creation of the idea of my project was my journey to Central Asia in the summer 2007 where I have looked for my roots. My search has induced me to explore the idea of human identity and such concept together with my subjective artistic view will be the main goal of my research.

I work with different media and I have been mostly using graphic techniques like woodcutting, silk-screening, offsetting, poster production, painting and other media in which I can express myself in the best way. Poster art as a contrary and absurd commentator of reality with its clear and forcible means is an excellent vehicle for expressing content. That is one reason why poster art is the most familiar artistic language for me. But in my opinion the medium should not constitute the whole point of the project and that is why in my work I would like to use different media and during my research on Iceland I will not be restricted to any particular one.

During my stay I am planning to conduct interviews with citizens of Iceland, other researchers and artists too. Their own view and exchange of ideas may open new ways of my perception.

As a result of my research I anticipate producing paintings, drawings and posters through which I would like to express the main goal of my artistic statement. On the basis of meetings and conversations I am going also to produce a series of photographs and short films.

In my view Iceland will be an excellent place for my work. I trust that my stay will provide variety and be very helpful in the realization of my project and will open new avenues of my artistic exploration."

Maja Wolna

maja.wolna@wp.pl

Íslensk þýðing kemur síðar.

MICHELLE OOSTERBAAN; Kynning/Introduction

Kortlagning og minni spila mikilvægt hlutverk í verkum mínum. Þessa stundina er ég að skapa stórt verk er samanstendur af teikningum og klippimyndum, skapað með blandaðri tækni og ætlað að vera á tilteknum stað. Ég blanda saman ímyndaðri frásögn við persónulega sögu sem rannsakar bæði hið formlega og sálfræðilega samband á milli línu, lita og byggingarlegs rýmis þar sem skilgreing staðarins, leiðar og persónulegar sögu blandast saman.

Teikningar mínar hafa þróast út frá því ferli að vinna með tímabundna málningu á veggi.
Í fimm ár málaði ég með latex málningu, hand blönduðum iðnaðar litum, lagði litað einangrunnar límband og gvass málningu á veggi, loft og golf í tengslum við rými herbergisins. Nú teikna ég – með bleki og lituðum blýöntun; Þetta er ferill sem að leyfir mér að tengja ímyndina við þá mynd sem að ég sé. Ég teikna merki, línur og mynstur á pappír og set saman litlar sögur er gerast innan byggingarlegs ramma.

Teikning er öll um merkjagerð. Gæði merkisins –skýrt, óskýrt, gróft, mjúkt, hlykkjótt, þungt – gefur eitthvað til kynna af því sem að ég hugsa eða upplifi jafnvel þó að engin þekkjanleg mynd verði af. Stundum geri ég þungar skarandi línur með reglustiku; öðrum stundum, þá nota ég mjúka snertingu til að ná fram, draugslegum, óskýrum áhrifum. Það gæti verið að ég noti nákvæman, beinan stíl til að lýsa flóknum útlínum af blómi eða hundi, og annarsstaðar nota ég óskýrar strokur til að skapa áhrif litrófs og sprenginga. Með tímanum munu afbakaðar skreytimyndir og þykk lög sjálfsævisögulegs myndmáls þróast. Með mismunandi sjónarhornum, breytingum í stærð, og lagskiptu myndmáli, mun ég einebeita mér að því að afhjúpa mikilvægar stundir í frásögninni. Þegar horft er á verkin í nálægð, þá afhjúpast þessar stundir á mismunandi hraða, líkt og hula rýmis í hreyfingu.

Hér er tilvitnun frá bæklingi mínum frá Nútímalistasafninu í Saint Louis…

“Ég er að leita að grunnímynd sem stendur fyrir,eða táknar stundir og stað. Ég geri mér grein fyrir því að þær eru þekkjanlegar, en ekki endilega bundnar af sömu merkingu, tengslum, eða sama heimi er ég bygg þær á…ég býð áhorfandanum að setja sína merkingu/mark á einangarapar myndir = að leggja margan mismunandi skylning í verkið – gjörningur er viðheldur andrúmslofti dulúðar og forvitni og að lokum eykur á lög möguleika sögunnar.”

Michelle Oosterbaan er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í Maí 2009. Hún býr og starfar í Bandaríkjunum.





Drop Off Dark Star, Amber Babes, & Bedrock
51 X 120 inches, Diptcyh, Color pencil and graphite on paper, 2008
130 X 304 cm, tafla, litablýanatar og blý á pappír, 2009



MICHELLE OOSTERBAAN Statement May 2009

Mapping and memory play important roles in my work. Right now I am making large-scale drawing and collages of mixed media composed and installed specifically to a site. On rolls of paper I blend imagined narratives with personal history to explore both the formal and psychological relationships between line, color, and architectural space in which definitions of place, passage, and personal journey are united.

My drawings have evolved from the process of working on temporary paintings on walls. For five years I painted with latex paint, hand mixed industrial colors, applied adhesive colored tape, and gouache paintings to walls, ceilings, and floors in response to a rooms’ space. Now I am drawing –with ink and color pencil; Its process allows me to link what I imagine with what I see. On tall sheets of paper, I draw with marks and lines and patterns to compose pockets of stories set within architectural frameworks.

Drawing is all about mark-making. The quality of a mark—clear, blurry, rough, smooth, sinuous, bulky—communicates something of what I am thinking and feeling even when no recognizable image emerges. At times I make heavy, overlapping lines with a ruler; at others, I employ a soft touch to achieve a smoky, ephemeral effect. I may use a precise, linear style to describe the intricate contours of a flower or a dog, and elsewhere use blurry streaks to create starburst and spectrum effects. Over time, vignettes of linear abstraction and densely layered autobiographical imagery develop. With multiple perspectives, shifts in scale, and layered imagery, I concentrate on revealing the critical moments of the narrative. Viewed at a close range, these moments unfold at different speeds like veils of space in flux.

Here’s a quote from my brochure from the Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis…

“I am searching for primary images to represent, or symbolize moments and places. I realize they are recognizable, yet not necessarily tied to the same meanings, associations, or the same world from which I construct them…I invite the viewer to put his / her meaning / imprint on the isolated images == to apply multiple interpretations of the work – an act that maintains a sense of mystery and curiosity and in the end increases the layers of the story’s potential.”



Grayin.
Stærð breytanleg, Gouache á pappír, fundin pappír, 2009
Dimensions Variable, Gouache on Paper, Found paper, 2009

RORY MIDDLETON; Sýning/Exhibition

Síðastlegin laugardag, 25. apríl, opnaði gestalistamður Gilfélagsins, Rory Middleton, sýninguna "The Fourth wall, Searching for Hjedna". Sýningin var aðeins opin þessa einu helgi.



Last Saturday, 25th April, the guest artist of the Gil Society, Rory Middleton, opened his exhibition "The Fourth wall, Searching for Hjedna". The exhibition was open for that weekend only.

RORY MIDDLETON; Opnun í Deiglunni / Opening In Deiglan

Laugardaginn 25. apríl mun gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í apríl, Rory Middleton, opna sýningu sína "The Fourth Wall, Searching for Hjedna" í Deiglunni, Kaupvangsstræti 23, Akureyri. Sýningin opnar kl. 14:00 og verður hún opin þessa einu helgi, laugardag og sunnudag 14:00 - 17:00.

Rory Middleton vinnur aðallega með kvikmyndir, arkítektúr og landslag. Hann skapar innsetningar, skúlptúra og vídeo og notar reyk, lykt og hljóð til að skapa umhverfi er áhorfandin getur gengið inn í.



This coming Saturday, 25th April, Rory Middleton, the guestartist of the Gil Society in April, will open his exhibition "The Fourth Wall, Searching for Hjedna" in Deiglan, Kaupvangsstræti 23, Akureyri. The exhibition will be open for this weekend only, Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 17:00 both days.

RORY MIDDLETON; Introduction/Kynning

Þau verk er Rory Middleton skapar láta sig varða kvikmyndir, Arkítektúr og landslag.
Hann skapar innsetningar, skúlptúra og vídeo og notar reyk, lykt og hljóð til að skapa umhverfi sem áhorfandinn getur gengið inn í.
Með því að blanda saman nútímalegum og hefðbundnum aðferðum reynir hann að byggja upp dulúð í kringum verk hans, með því að skapa andrúmsloft kvikmynda með því að nota aðferðir kvikmynda.

Nú, þegar á Akureyri, hefur hann verið að taka upp ,,Seraching for Hjedna", vegamynd þar sem íslenskt landslag er bæði karakter og umgjörð, þar sem leikarar, listamenn og áhorfendur munu týna sér, og vona að þau munu finna hvað Hjedna er.

Rory Middleton býr og starfar í Edinburgh og útskrifaðist með MFA frá Glasgow School of Art árið 2006 og með BA frá Falmouth School of Art 2002.



Rory Middleton’s work is concerned with cinema, architecture and landscape.
He makes installations, sculpture and video and uses smoke, smell and sound to create environments into which the viewer can enter.
By combining modern and traditional techniques he aims to construct mystery and ambiguity within his work, creating cinematic space through means of cinematic devices.

Whilst in Akureyri he has been shooting ‘Searching for Hjedna’ a road movie where the Icelandic Landscape is both Character and Set, where the actor, artist and audience find themselves lost, hoping to find what is Hjedna.

Rory Middleton lives and works in Edinburgh and Graduated with an MFA from Glasgow School of Art 2006 and BA from Falmouth School of Art 2002.

KRISTIN DEMCHUK; Fyrirlestur/lecture

Síðastlegin miðvikudag, þann 11. mars, var gestalistamaður gilfélagsins, Kristin Demchuck, með fyrirlestur fyrir nemendur og kennara Myndlistaskólans á Akureyri.

Kristin er frá Kanada, útskrifuð með MFA gráðu frá Háskólanum í Guelph, Kanada.


Last Wednesday, 11th March, the guest artist of the Gil Society, Kristin Demchuck, had a lecture in the Akureyri School of Visual arts for students and teachers.

Kristin Demchuk is from Canada, graduated with a MFA from the University of Guelph, Canada.

KRISTIN DEMCHUK; kynning/Introduction

Kristin Demchuk er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í mars. Kristin býr og starfar í Kanada og hefur lært bæði við háskólan í Calgary (BFA), Kanada, og háskólan í Guelph (MFA), Kanada.

Í verkum mínum leita ég eftir því að íhuga hringrásina á milli líkamans og vélar, á milli áþreifanlegra og eiginlegra snjónarmiða efnisins.
í gegnum aðferðafræðilegan feril, kanna rannsóknir mínar hvernig aðferðir og tækni upplýsa hvort annað, í gegnum bæði vana líkamans og vitrænt atferli. Með því að samtvinna tækni og aðferðir hef ég áhuga á að skapa afsprengi af stafrænu handverki sem innilmar hringrás af flutningi frá flaumrænni yfir í stafræna tækni sem skilur eftir ummerki eftir einstaklingin. Nýlegar rannsóknir mínar hafa leitt af sér verk sem kanna sögu textíls og sambands þeirra við stafræna miðla. Með því að rannsaka aðferðir þessara tveggja tækna, sambands endurtekinna athafna kóðunnar og tvíundar nátturu vefnaðar og prjóns hefur fætt af sér nýtt mynstur innan listsköpunar minnar.
- Kristin Demchuk


Kristin Demchuk is the guestartist of the Gil Society in March. Kristin lives and works in Kanada and has studed in the University of Guelph (MFA) and the University of Calgary (BFA).

My practice seeks a contemplation of the circuitry between the body and the machine, between the physical and virtual aspects of materials. Through a process-based practice, my research investigates how techniques and technologies inform one another, through both the habits of the body and through cognitive processing. By combining technologies and processes, I am interested in producing a form of digital craft-making that incorporates the circuitry of the transfer from analogue to digital technology while leaving the mark of the individual. My more recent research has lead to a body of work investigating the history of textiles and their relationship to digital media. Through investigating the techniques of these two technologies, the relationship between repetitive acts of coding and the binary nature of weaving and knitting has led to new patterns of emergence within my art practice.
- Kristin Demchuk

AKANE KIMBARA; Opnun/Opening

Föstudaginn 27. febrúar var gestalistamaður gilfélagsins, Akane Kimbara, með sýningu í Gestavinnustofu Gilfélagins. Sýningin stóð frá 18:00 til 23:00 þetta eina kvöld.



Friday 27th Febuary the guest artist of the Gil Society, Akane Kimbara, opened her exhibition in the Gil Society Guest artists' studio. The exhibition was open from 18:00 - 23:00 this single evening.

AKANE KIMBARA; Opið Studio/ Open Studio

Föstudaginn þann 27. febrúar mun gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins, Akane Kimbara, bjóða gestum og gangandi að kíkja við á Kaupvangstræti 23 á Akureyri á milli 18:00 til 23:00 í spjall og skoða listverk hennar sem verða til sýnis í gestavinnustofunni. Sýningin ber heitið "Mi So Si Do, Do Si Mi So, So Mi Si Si, Do Si So Mi".

Akane Kimbara er fædd og uppalin í Japan, en býr og starfar í Þýskalandi. Nánari upplýsingar má finna á heimasíðu hennar www.akanekimbara.net.

Léttar veitingar verða í boði.


The guest artist of the Gil society, Akane Kimbara, will be opning her exhibiton "Mi So Si Do, Do Si Mi So, So Mi Si Si, Do Si So Mi" this Friday, 27th febuary at 18:00 in the Guest Artist studio at Kaupvangsstræti 23. The exhibition will be open until 23:00 and only this single evening.

Akane Kimbara is born and raised in Japan, but lives and works in Germany. More informations on Akane Kimbara can be found on her website www.akanekimbara.net.

AKANE KIMBARA; Fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum/ Lecture in the school of Visual Art

Miðvikudaginn þann 12. febrúar kl. 13:00 var gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins með fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum á Akureyri fyrir nemendur og starfsfólk.
Akane kynnti list sína sem og þann megin mun sem er á myndlistaskólum hér vestanhafs og Japans.
Frekari upplýsingar um Akane Kimbara má finna á heimasíðu hennar www.akanekimbara.net





Wednesday 12th February at 13:00, Akane Kimbara, the guest artist of the Gil society had a lecture at the Akureyri school of Visual Art for students and staff.
Akane Kimbara introduced her art as well as what she perceived to be the main difference between western art schools and Japanese art schools.
More informations on Akane Kimbara can be found on her website www.akanekimbara.net.

AKANE KIMBARA; Kynning/Introduction

Akane Kimbara er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í febrúar. Akane býr og starfar í Þýskalandi en er upprunarlega frá Japan. Hún hefur lagt nám á myndlist bæði í Tokyo, Japan og Hamborg, Þýskalandi.

,,Nýlega fannst forn beinagrind af kvennmanni í Japan. Nánari skoðun syndic að konan hafði verið uppi fyrir 15.000 árum, og þjáðist af lömun og þá væntanlega frá barnsaldri. Þrátt fyrir það lifði hún til 21 árs aldurs, sem þýðir að annað folk hefur hugsað um hana allt hennar líf. Þess konar ummönnun ber vott um mjög svo þróaða manngæsku í jafnvel svo fornu samfélagi. Ég las þetta einhversstaðar og er heilluð af því.
Ég held að mannleg samúð og greind hafi verið sú sama þá og hún er nú. Þörf þeirra hefur einungis breyst. Það breytir engu hvað þú hugsar eða gerir, hver ásetningur þinn er. Hvað hvetur þig, hvernig þú hegðar þér, hver tilfinningaleg viðbrögð þín eru, þetta hefur ekkert breyst í raun undanfarin 10.000 ár.

Í verkum mínum vil ég sýna fólk sem var uppi fyrir 15.000 árum. Ég vil sjá viðbrögð þeirra. Ég ímynda mér að þau gætu skilið verk mín á sama hátt og nútímamanneskjan myndi skilja þau.”
-Akane Kimbara




Akane Kimbara is the guest artist of the Gil society in February. Akane lives and works in Germany, but is originally from Japan. She has studied art both in Tokyo, Japan and Hamburg, Germany.

“Recently, an ancient female skeleton was found in Japan. The examination showed that the woman had lived at least 15.000 years ago, and she suffered from infantile paralysis. But still she lived to the age of 21, which means that other people took care of her for all her life. This kind of care testifies to the already high level of humane development of this ancient society. I read about this somewhere and I am fascinated by it.
I think that human compassion and intellect have been basically the same then as they are now. Just the necessities have changed. It doesn’t matter what you think or do, what intensions you have. What motivates you, how you act, and what your emotional reactions are, this hasn’t changed essentially in the last couple of 10.000 years.

I have the wish to show my work to the people who lived 15.000 years ago. I would like to see their reactions. I imagine they could undestand my work in the same way as a viewer today.”
-Akane Kimbara

SCOTT ROGERS; Opnun & Fyrirlestur / Opening & Lecture

Síðastlegin föstudag, þann 23 janúar, var Scott Rogers, gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í janúar, með opið studio fyrir gesti og gangandi. Gestavinnustofan var opin frá 18:00 til 23:00.
Hann sýndi hvort um sig video verk og innsetningar. Scott var einnig með fyrirlestur í Verkmenntaskóla Akureyrar mánudaginn 26 janúar kl 10:00.


Jóna Hlíf (left) & Scott Rogers (right)


Last Friday, January 23, Scott Rogers, the guest artist of the Gil Society for January, had an open studio for the public of Akureyri. The Guest artist studio was open from 18:00 to 23:00.
He exhibited both video work and installations.
Scott also had a lecture on Monday, 26 January, at 10:00 in one of the local colleges of Akureyri, Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri.



Georg Óskar Manúelsson

SCOTT ROGERS; Opið Studio/Open Studio

Gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins, Scott Rogers, verður með opið Studio næstkomandi Föstudagkvöld, þann 23 Janúar. Gestir og gangandi eru velkomnir í spjall. Endilega komið og takið vini og vandamenn með.
Það verður opið frá 18:00 og frameftir fyrir gesti og gangandi.

Nánari upplýsingar um Scott Rogers má finna hér og á vefsíðu hans.

Gestavinnustofan er einnig komin á Facebook og má finna slíðu hennar hér.



The guest artist of January, Scott Rogers, will have an open studio this Friday evening, 23rd January. The studio opens at 18:00 and will be open throughout the evening. Everyone is welcome to come by, talk with the artist and socialize.

More information on Scott Rogers can be found here and on his website.

The Guest artists' studio now has its own facebook page for those who are interested, the site can be found here.

SCOTT ROGERS: Fyrirlestur/Lecture

Síðastlegin þriðjudag, þann 13 janúar 2009 hélt gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins, Scott Rogers, fyrirlestur fyrir nemendur og kennara Myndlistaskólans á Akureyri. Fyrirlesturinn heppnaðist vel og verður Scott með fyrirlestur fyrir nema Verkmenntaskólans á Akureyri næstkomandi miðvikudag.



Last Tuesday, 13th January 2009 Scott Rogers, the guest artist of the Gil Society had a lecture at the Akureyri school of Visual Art for students and teachers. The lecture was a success and this coming Wednesday he will have a lecture at one of the local colleges of Akureyri, Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri.

SCOTT ROGERS: Kynning/Introduction

Scott Rogers er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í Janúar 2009. Eftirfarandi texti erum hann og hans verk.

Ég er kanadískur listamaður sem er einnig sýningarstjóri og skrifar um list. Verk mín eru margbreytileg, en einblýna gjarnan á staðbundna starfssemi, samvinnu og íhugul hugmynda verk. Mörg verk mín eru skammvinn, þau fela í sér tímabundnar athafnir í bæði almennu umhverfi og sýningum. Þessar athafnir taka á sig form skúlptúra, gjörninga, teikninga, margföldunar, ljósmynda og texta-byggðra verka. Stundum nota ég video, PowerPoint og myndvarpa einnig. Í starfi mínu hef ég áhuga á að rannsaka leiðir til sköpunar og semja um merkingu út frá tilviljunarkenndu efni, með því að vekja upp samtal í gegnum list og þar með þróa aðstæður og umhverfi sem gefa leyfi á félagslega og pólitíska gagrýni.
Ég nota húmor, lágstemmda fagurfræði og blöndu af popp-menningu, listsögulegar og heimspekilegar tengingar til að festa í sessi þessa ramma. Ég eyði miklum tíma í að skipta um skoðun.



Scott hefur nýlega sýnt í ,,The New Gallery (Calgary), Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John’s), Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland), The University of Lethbridge og við TULCA hátíðina (Galway, Írland). Komandi sýningar hans eru í Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax,), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton) og Stride Gallery (Calgary).
Hann tók þátt nýlega í ,, Reverse Pedagogy Thematic Residency” gestadvöl á vegum Banaff Centre (Kanada) og mun vera gestalistamaður Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt (Berlín, Þýskalandi) í febrúar 2009. Hann er stofnmeðlimur í Arbour Lake Sghool (Listasamstarfshópur í úthverfum Galgary, Kanada) og er sýningarstjóri ásamt Jason de Haan í Pocket Project, sem er frumkvöðlastarfsem snýst um það að gefa listamönnum margþætt umboðs verkefni.

Scott vill þakka Alberta Foundation for the Arts fyrir rausnarlegan stuðning við gestadvöl hans í Gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins á Akureyri.

http://www.scottrogersprojects.com
http://www.thearbourlakesghool.com
http://www.foamcorerecords.com




Scott Rogers is the guest artist of the Gil Society in January 2009.
The following text is of his work and career.

I am a Canadian visual artist, who also writes about art and curates. My work is widely divergent, but is generally concerned with site-specific activities, collaborations and speculative conceptual projects. Many of my works are ephemeral, incorporating temporary gestures in both public and exhibition settings. These gestures take the form of sculptures, performances, drawings, multiples, photos and text-based work. Sometimes I use video, PowerPoint and projections as well. Within my practice I am interested in investigating ways of creating and negotiating meaning from essentially random material, in provoking dialogue and discussion through art and in developing platforms which allow for social or political critique. I use humour, lo-fi aesthetics and a mixture of pop cultural, art historical and philosophical references to establish these frameworks. I spend a lot of time changing my mind.



Scott has recently exhibited at The New Gallery (Calgary), Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John’s), Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland), The University of Lethbridge and the TULCA Festival (Galway, Ireland). His upcoming exhibitions include shows at Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton) and Stride Gallery (Calgary). He recently participated in the Reverse Pedagogy Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre (Canada) and will be an artist-in-residence at Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt (Berlin) in February 2009. He is a founding member of the Arbour Lake Sghool (a collaborative art group in the suburbs of Calgary) and is the co-curator with Jason de Haan of Pocket Projects, an initiative which commissions artist multiples.


Scott would like to thank the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for its generous support of his residency at the Akureyri Artist Studio.


http://www.scottrogersprojects.com

http://www.thearbourlakesghool.com

http://www.foamcorerecords.com

ESTER VAN DER BIE: Fyrirlestur/Lecture

Síðastlegin miðvikudag, 3j desember, var gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins, Ester Van Der Bie með fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum á Akureyri.
Ester vinnur með vídeo, ljósmyndun og innsetningar.





Last Wednesday, 3rd December, the guest artist of the Gil Society, Ester Van Der Bie, had a lecture in the Akureyri School of Visual Art. Ester works with video, photography an installations.

ESTER VAN DER BIE: Kynning/Introduction

Esther van der Bie, frá Sviss, er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í desember
Eftirfarandi er texti um verk hennar:

Að vinna með og í rými.

Jafnvel þótt að meginhluti verka minn tilheyri ljósmyndum, þá kemur rými oft við sögu. Þetta getur verið ljósmyndarverk i formi innsetninga, byggt upp sem innsetning sem á að ljósmynda. Með innsetningum fylgir gjarnan tónlist sem hefur verið sérstakega þróuð fyrir verkið. í þeim tilvikum vinn ég með tónlistarmönnum ásamt því að semja tónlistina sjálf.

Það að þróa nýtt verk er líkt og fljót sem rennur í gegnum landslagið. Með því að umlykja þemað, mismunandi hliðar birtast og krefjast eigin forms.

Oft hef ég áhuga á spurningum er fjalla um skynjun og túlkun hennar.






Verkefni á Íslandi:

Landslag:
Ljósmyndaverk.

Þar til nú hef ég byggt landslag í stúdíóinu.Ég tæli áhorfandan til að sja, þvert gegn eigin vitund, skóg. Í íslenska ljósmyndaverkinu mun ég meðhöndla hið raunverulega landslag líkt og gríðarstórt stúdío. Yfir næturtíman mun ég taka ljósmyndir með löngu ljósopi og lýsa upp ákveðna punkta í umhverfinu. Á þennan máta mun landslagið breytast, tileinka sér súrrealiskan blæ og mun ekki vera skynjað sem raunverulegt rýmim.
Ég vinn með 4 x 5' ljósmyndavél.

Abstrakt vegamynd:
Teiknimynd, 6 mín.

Vegamynd, er víxlar stöðugt á að vera raunverulegt landslag og blekteikning. Til að ná þessum áhrifum þarf ég að hafa umhverfi sem í sjálfumsér er nú þegar abstrakt í eðli sýnu. Ég held að Ísland að vetri til með sitt eldfjallarlandslag, mismunandi liti steinefna, hið sjaldgæfa en viðkvæma ljós fylli köfurnar fyrir þetta verkefni. Á þennan máta hefur áhorfandin ekkert tækifæri til að staðsetja sjálfan sig. Beygjan verður tekin frá raunverulegri ferð og yfir í ímyndað ferðalag.

Heimspeki tréð:
vídeo.

Tréið (sem er í raun her í felubúning) rambar um hin menningarlega heim og endar á Íslandi, þar sem það biður um hæli. Ég held það fagni því að það séu svo fá tré. Á ferð sinni hittir það mannverur, og á í samræðum við þær.Það mun hitta óvenjulegan viðarahúsgagnarsala, rökræða við heimspeking um sannleikskenningar, tala við umhverfisráðherra og sérfræðing um álfa. Fígúran, sem að er eitthvað á milli persónugervingar og goðsagnarkenndrar veru, leyfir okkur að vera undrandi yfir þessum heimum og kerfum sem að mannveran byggir.

Ég yrði mjög ánægð ef enhverjir myndu ganga til liðs við mig við videoverkin mín. Ég er a leita að fólki sem að tréð mætti taka viðtöl við. Upptökur byrja 17. desember.
Endilega hafið samband við: e.vanderbie@bluewin.ch


Esther van der Bie, from Switzerland, is the gestartist of the Gil society in December.
Following is a text about her work;

Work in and with Space

Even though my principal work is situated in the field of photography, space is frequently involved. This can be as well photographic work used in an installative form, as built-up installations specially to be photographed. Installative works are often accompanied by music, specially developed for it. On this occasion I work as well with musicians as I am composing the soundtrack myself.

Developing new works has a certain similarity with a river meandering through a landscape. By surrounding the theme, different aspects occure and demand a form of it‘s own.

Often I am interested in questions concerning perception and its interpretation.




Projects in Iceland:

Landscapes:
photograpic work

Till this moment I have built up landscapes in the studio. I seduced the observer to see, against his better-knowing, a forest. In my icelandic photographic work I will treat the real landscape like a huge studio. During the night I will take photographies with long time exposure and flash out specific points in the surrounding. Like that, the landscape changes, gets some surreal aspects and won‘t be felt as a congruent space.
I work with a 4 x 5‘ camera

An abstract road movie
animation, 6min

A Road-Movie, constantly changing between real landscape and ink drawing. To achieve this effect, I need to have a surrounding which in itself has allready a high degree of abstraction. I think that Iceland in winter-time with its volcanic grounds, the different colors of the minerals, the rare but delicat light is most suitable for this project. By that the observer has no opportunity to situate himself. The curve will be done from real journey to imaginated voyage.


The philosophic tree
video

The tree ( in fact a military hiding costume) rambles through the civilazed world and ends up in Iceland, where it‘s asking for asylum. It thinks to be welcome seeing that there are not many trees. On it‘s journey it meets human beings, having conversations with them. It will run into an esoterical trader of wooden furniture, debates with a philosopher about theories of truth, talks to a minister of environement and a specialist for elfs. The figure, something inbetween a personification and a mythical creature, lets us be astonished at the worlds and systems human beeings build up.
Picture of the tree

I would be glad to find volunteers joining my video-work. I am searching for people which are willing to give to the tree an interview. The filming starts at the 17.december.
Please contact: e.vanderbie@bluewin.ch

Miyuki Tsushima; Opnun/Opening

Síðastlegin miðvikudag, þann 26. nóvember var Miyuki Tsushima með Opin dag í gestavinnustofunni. Opnunin heppnaðist vel og stóð hún frá 13: 00 til 19:00.


Miyuki Tsushima



Óskar Árnason og Miyuki Tsushima


Last Wednesday, 26th November, Miyuki Tsushima had an Open day at the Guestartist studio. The opening was quite successful and lasted from 13:00 until 19:00.



G. Óskar Manúelsson, Óskar Árnason, Hrönn Einarsdóttir, Ragney Guðbjartsdóttir.

Miyuki Tsushima; Opið Hús/Open House

Miðvikudaginn þann 26. nóvember verður gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins, Miyuki Tsushima með opin dag í gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins við Kaupvangsstræti 23. Vinnustofan verður opin fyrir gesti og gangandi frá 13:00 til 19:00. Léttar veitingar verða í boði.
Miyuki Tsushima býr og starfar í New York.


This coming Wednesday 26th November Miyuki Tsushima, the guestartist of the Gil society, will host an open day at the guestartist studio. The studio is located at Kaupvangsstræti 23 and will be open from 13:00 until 19:00. Everyone is welcome to come and visit the artist.
Miyuki Tsushima lives and works in New York.

Miyuki Tsushima; Fyrirlestur/Lecture

Miyuki Tsushima hélt fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum á Akureyri mánudaginn 24. nóvember. Hún kynnti bæði verk sín og listheimin í New York fyrir nemum skólans.



Miyuki Tsushima had a lecture in the School of Visual art in Akureyr last monday, the 24th November. She introduced both her works and the art scene in New York to the students of the school.

MIYUKI TSUSHIMA; Kynning/ Introduction

Hello--My name is Miyuki Tsushima, I am the artist of November, at the studio space, I was born in Japan and educated in United States, live and work in New York City since 2000. I see my painting/drawing as a mean of communication, and the tool for expression of my observation of myself, and of the world, and of human psychology and emotions, and of the relationships of all of above. Through loosely structured narrative of three characters activities-- caveperson, headless bear, and evil squirrel---, I reflect my inner struggles, and my attempt to adopt myself to the outside world, and the process of identifying and developing one's self.

I feel I am fortunate to have been able to be an eyewitness of the current fall of excessive market economy system, and the affect of it to the art world, since the questions such as 'what is the real value' and 'what is the value of individual' has been very crucial to myself in making art. I am hoping to be able to exchange and share thoughts and perspectives for what the current world conditions would suggest to us especially to our sense of value, with the artists and people in Akureyri. (Please say 'Hello' to me to have chat, if you find me on the street! )



Halló -- Ég heiti Miyuki Tsushima, ég er listamaður Gilfélagsins í nóvember, ég fæddist í Japan en er menntuð í Bandaríkjunum, hef búið og starfað í New York síðan árið 2000. Ég sé teikningar/málverk mín sem leið til tjáskipta, sem tól til að tjá athuganir mínar á sjálfri mér, heiminum, mannssálini og tilfinningum og innbyrgðis tengsla þeirra. Í gegnum lauslega byggða frásögn af þrem karakter- gjörðum -- hellisbúa, hauslausan björn og illan íkorna---, endurspegla ég innri togstreytu, tilraun minni til að aðlaga mig að umheiminum, og ferlinu að þekkja og þróa eigið sjálf.

Ég upplifi mig sem heppna að vera vitni að falli hins óhóflega markaðskerfis, og áhrifa þeirra sem það mun hafa á listheimin, því að spurningar líkt og ,,Hvað er raunverulegt gildi" og ,,Hvert er gildi einstaklingsins" hafa verið mér mikilvægar í listsköpun minni. Ég vonast til að geta tjáð hugsanir mínar og skipt á álitum og viðhorfum sem núverandi heimur okkar lætur okkur í té, sérstaklega þegar að kemur að gildum okkar, með listamönnum og fólki á Akureyri. (endilega segilð "Hæ" og spjallið við mig, ef þið sjáið mig á götunni!)

Kazuko Kizawa Opnar í Deiglunni

Laugardaginn þann 25. Október opnaði Kazuko Kizawa, gestalsitamaður Gilfélagsins í október, sýningu sína í Deiglunni. Léttar veitingar voru í boði. Sýningin mun einnig standa yfir sunnudaginn þann 26. október, frá 14:00 til 17:00.



Saturday 25th October Kazuko Kizawa, the Gil Society's guest artist, opened her exhibition in Deiglan. The exhibition will be open until Sunday 26th of October, from 14:00 to 17:00.

Kazuko Kizawa Sýnir í Deiglunni.

Laugardaginn þann 25. Október mun Kazuko Kizawa opna sýningu sína í Deiglunni, Kaupvangsstræti 23, kl. 14.00. Sýningin mun aðeins vera opin þessa einu helgi, laugardaginn þann 25. og sunnudaginn þann 26. frá 14.00 til 17.00 báða daga.

Léttar veitingar verða í boði.

Kazuko Kizawa er gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í október, hún er frá Japan og hefur sýnt í Evrópu og Norður-Ameríku.



Saturday 25th October Kazuko Kizawa will open her exhibition in Deiglan, Kaupvangsstræti 23, at 14:00. Her exhibition will only be open the weekend of 25th and 26th, from 14.00 to 17.00 both days.

Kazuko Kizawa is the guest artists of the Gilsociety of October, she is from Japan and has exhibited in Europe and North-America.

Kazuko Kizawa, Fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum

Síðastlegin miðvikudag, þann 22. október, hélt Kazuko Kizawa fyrirlestur fyrir nemendur Myndlistaskólans á Akureyri. Hún fjallaði um heimaland sitt,Japan, fyrri gestadvalir í Kanada sem og eigin list og þróun hennar.

Kazuko Kizawa mun opna sýningu sína í Deiglunni, Kaupvangsstræti 23, næstkomandi laugardag, kl 14.00. Nánar um það síðar.





Last Wednesday, 22nd October, Kazuko Kizawa had a lecture for the students of the Visual School of Art in Akureyri. Her topics were her homecountry of Japan, previous residencies in Canada and her own art and it's development.

Kazuko Kizawa will open her exhibition in Deiglan, Kaupvangsstræti 23, next Saturday, at 14:00. More informations will come later.

Kazuko Kizawa

Gestalistamaður Oktobermánaðar er Kazuko Kizawa. Hún er fædd 1968 í Japan og býr og starfar í Tokyo, Japan. Hún útskrifaðist 1999 úr Tama Art University með Master í Fagurlist. Kazuko Kizawa hefur sýnt í Kanada, Bandaríkjunum, Japan og Evrópu. Litir-Ljós hafa eru gegnum gangandi þemi í verkum hennar.

The Guest artist of October is Kazuko Kizawa. She was born 1968 in Japan, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated 1999 from Tama Art University, Master of Fine arts. Kazuko Kizawa has exhibited in Canada, USA, Japan and Europe. Colour-Light has been a consistent theme of her work.

RAQUEL MENDES: Generosa Review/Gagrýni

Raquel Mendes var gestalistamaður gilfélagsins í ágúst, hún hélt sýninguna ,,Generosa" í GalleriBOX og er nú komin gagrýni á sýningu hennar. Eftirfarandi texti er um sýningu Raquel Mendes;


Raquel Mendes was the guestartists of the Gil Society in August, she had the exhibition "Generosa" in GalleriBOX and now this exhibition has been reviewed. The following text says about Raquel Mendes' exhibition;

Rétt eins og aðrar listgreinar á mynlist það til að koma við kvikuna í manni, stundum jafnvel kalla fram tár í augun eða kökk í hálsinn. Eftir að skoða innsetningu portúgölsku lisakonunnar Raquel Mendes í Gallerí Boxi á Akureyri þurfti ég að kyngja nokkrum sinnum áður en ég herti mig í að fara aftur út í daginn. En hér er engin tilfinningasemi á ferð eða væmni, einungis blátt áfram og einstaklega fallega sögð saga af dauða aldraðrar konu sem tengist listakonunni, ég man ekki betur en í texta á sýningunni segði tengdamóðir en í fréttatilkynningu segir amma. Hvort sem er þá er hún nátengd og umhyggja listakonunnar fyrir henni er hluti af sýningunni.
Mendes segir á margradda hátt sögu af veikindum og dauðastríði þessarar öldruðu konu. Líkamlegt ástand og áþreifanlegir hlutir og innanstokksmyndir eru viðfangsefni hennar á myndbandi, ljósmynum, skúlptúr og í vélrituðum texta. Hið líkamlega er nær áþreifanlegt á myndbandi og ljósmyndum, en lifandi blóm og myndir af plöntum kalla fram eitthvað úr umhverfi þeirrar látnu um leið og hér birtist hverfulleiki lífsins, ljós og skuggar. Ljósmyndir af innanstokksmunum á rúi og stúi sýna forgengileika þeirra hluta sem við sönkum að okkur í gegnum lífið en einstakir munir eins og heklaðir dúkar gefa til kynna að hlutir geta einnig falið í sér minningar. Bláköld lýsing textans á veikindum og dauðastríði segir kaldan sannleika, en það sem eftir stendur er sýning um lífið og tvær konur sem gáfu hvor annarri eitthvað sem gerði þær báðar ríkari. Sýning Raquel Mendes er hnitmiðuðu og fáguð í framsetningu, hún hikar hvergi og hefur fullkomið vald á þeim miðlum sem hún notar og samsetningu þeirra, innsetning hennar er með þeim eftirminnilegri á árinu og fengur að.

Art, just as music or literature, has a way of touching one’s core, even sometimes producing a tear in one’s eye or a lump in one’s throat. After viewing an installation by the Portuguese artist Raquel Mendes in Gallery Box in Akureyri, I had to swallow a few times before I pulled myself together to get back into reality. However, there is no sentimentality or corniness here, only a straight forward and very beautifully told story about the death of the artist’s grandmother.
Mendes tells a multi-layered story of the illness and death of the aged woman. Her physical state, tangible objects and interior pictures are Mendes’s subject matter in a video, photographs, sculpture, and a typewritten text. The bodily can almost be touched in the video and photographs, but living flowers and pictures of plants bring forth something from the environment of the deceased at the same time that life’s collapsibility is presented; light and shadows.
Photographs of interior objects in a mess bear reminisces of the destructibility of the things we gather through life but single things like knitted table cloths imply that objects can also contain memories. The ice cold description in the text of the illness and fight until death, tells a naked truth, but what remains is an exhibition about life and two women who gave each other something that made them both more full. Raquel Mendes’ exhibition is precise and prestigious, she never hesitates and has perfect power over the media she uses, as well as their combination, her installation is among this year’s most memorable and a real catch.

Anna McCarthy/ Heimir Björgúlfsson - Exhibition in GalleriBOX

Þann 20. September, laugardag, kl. 14:00 mun Anna McCarthy opna sýningu sína í GalleriBOX.Anna McCarthy hefur verið gestalistamaður Gilfélagsins í september. Sýningin ber heitið ,,Where have all the heroes gone?".
Ásamt Önnu McCarthy mun Heimir Björgúlfsson opna sýningu sína ,, Silfur er að tala".
Sýningarnar munu vera opnar Laugardaga & Sunnudaga frá 14:00 til 17:00
Léttar veitingar verða í boði



20th of september, saturday, at 14:00 Anna McCarthy's exhibition will open. It carries the title "Where have all the heroes gone?". Anna McCarthy has been the Gil societies guestartist of september. At the same time an Icelandic artist by the name of Heimir Björgúlfsson will open his exhibition, "Silver is to speak". Both exhibitions will be open saturdays and sundays from 14:00 to 17:00.

Anna McCarthy

Listamaður þessa mánaðar er ANNA MCCARTHY. Hún er breskur listamamaður sem býr og starfar í Glasgow og Munich.

Anna McCarthy er listamaður sem skapar verk sem gjarnan setja tónlist, menningu og list saman á óvenjulegan máta. Innan þessa samhengis skapar hún innsetningar sem samansettar eru af video, skúlptúr, teikningu og gjörningi þar sem samvinna hennar líkt þenkjandi nánustu vina og ættingja skapa atvik og atburði.
Þessir sí endurtekni þemi innan verka hennar eru innri og ytri virkni samfélagsins; sjáanleg í helgiatöfnum, sérstrúarsöfnuðum, persónulegum þráhyggjum, breytilegum lífsreynslum, neðanjarðar hreyfingum, hóp formum, stéttarskiptingu o.s.fr.Hún nálgast efnið á ögrandi máta og skapar hennar eigin heima í kringum þessa þemu.



The artist of this month is Anna McCarthy. She's a British artist that lives and works in Glasgow and Munich.


Anna McCarthy is an artist, whose work often juxtaposes music culture and art. Within this context, she constructs interactive installations which include video, sculpture, drawing and performance platforms, whereupon her fluid cooperative of creatively-minded close friends and family members, create scenarios.
A recurrent theme within her work are insider and outsider functions within society; evident in religious rituals, cults, personal obsessions, transcendental experience, underground movements, group formations, hierarchies etc. She takes a provocative tongue-in-cheek approach and creates her own worlds surrounding these themes.

Raquel Mendes í Gallerí Boxi

Raquel Mendes gestur Gestavinnustofu og Siggi Eggertsson opna sýningarnar "Generosa" og "Bíttar ekki máli" í GalleríBOXi laugardaginn 30. ágúst kl.14:30. GalleríBox sem er við Kaupvangsstræti 10 á Akureyri er opið föstudaga, laugardaga og sunnudaga frá 14:00 til 17:00. Sýningarnar standa til og með 14. september 2008.


Raquel Mendes útskrifaðist úr skúlptúrdeild listaháskólans í Lissabon árið 2002 og lauk Mastersgráðu frá listaháskólanum í Glasgow 2007.

Athuganir á aðlögunarhæfni manneskjunnar og getu hennar til þess að bregðast við óvæntum aðstæðum eru megin uppspretta verka Raquel Mendes. Raquel fæst við skúlptúr, innsetningar og nú upp á síðkastið ljósmyndun og videoverk.

Verkefnið "Generosa" var grundvallað á athugunum og skráningu (ljósmyndir/video) ástands og hátternis, sem leiddu í ljós merki um andlega og líkamlega hnignun ömmu hennar. Andspænis slíkum aðstæðum var nauðsyn á köldu auga myndavélarinnar til þess að aðskilja sorgarferlið, einnig þörf á fegrandi lýsingu sem gerir áorkanina yfirskilvitlegri og þar af leiðandi bærilegri en líka, án efa, þrungna merkingu.



Nánari upplýsingar: http://www.galleribox.blogspot.com

Siggi Eggertsson: http://www.vanillusaft.com

Raquel Mendes: http://artnews.org/artist.php?i=3044

Raquel Mendes

Listamaður í Gestavinnustofu í ágúst er Raquel Mendes frá Portúgal. Hún mun halda sýningu í Gallerí Box á Akureyrarvöku.

Raquel Mendes útskrifaðist sem skúlptúristi frá Fagurlistadeildinni í Lissabon í Portúgal árið 2002. Á því tímabili var hún skiptinemi í Listaakademíunni í Osló í Noregi. Og 2007 lauk hún mastersgráðu í myndlist frá Glasgow School of Art í Skotlandi.

Hún leggur stund á skúlptúr, innsetningar og ljósmyndun og vídeólist.
Síðan 2000 hefur hún haldið sýningar reglulega og verið tengd Sopro gallery í Lissabon síðan 2003.

Anna Mields og Linda Franke í Deiglunni

Anna K. Mields og Linda Franke sem dvelja nú í gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins opna sýninguna "The Living House" í Deiglunni, föstudaginn 25. júlí. Sýningin stendur aðeins þessa einu helgi. Sýningin hefst á spennandi gjörningi klukkan 5 á föstudeginum.
Þema sýningarinnar er leyndardómurinn í hversdagslegum hlutum. Matur, diskar og húsgögn umkringja okkur. Þessir hlutir eru markaðir hversdagslegum gjörðum okkar. Daglegar venjur okkar eru nánast ómeðvitaðar, en þegar við gerum þær að athöfn breytist skynjun okkar á þeim.
Hvað ef þessir hversdagslegu hlutir fá sitt eigið líf? Er munur á trúnni á hið leyndardómsfulla og yfirnáttúrulega og hátækni og funksjónalisma?

Anna Mields recent work deals with association themes of still life tradition and fetishism. She works with fragmentary moments of the everyday and investigates moments when controlled or constrained actions occur to those casted objects. Often presented or displayed on structures suggesting containment the casts functions as strange decoration or obtains a function as character.
Within the videos everyday food products occur alienated from its usual appearance and there specific movement is created through a performative act. Within those situations the former disregarded object gains meaning signifying and dealing with different conditions of the human body.

The performance artist Linda Franke works in an unusually sensual way and constructs a narrative, which reveals her affinity to surrealist paintings and a fantastically bizarre world of film images. Complex room installations involving costumes and mask are basic equipment in her performances, which generally happen only once and suggest performance as an ephemeral experience. The aspect of visuality that shows in emphasizing material qualities such as silicon, rubber, foam, wax, fabric, wood and food and is combined with sound elements from different music genres ranging from jazz to opera.
A certain motionlessness of the scenes suggests to draw comparison to a „Tableau Vivants“ a living picture.

Nánari upplýsingar um listamennina má fá á heimasíðum þeirra:
www.artnews.org/annakatharinamields
www.lindafranke.com

Sjá einnig
Dagskrá Listasumars

Anna Mields í DaLí Gallerí

Þýska listakonan Anna Mields opnar myndlistasýningu í DaLí Gallery laugardaginn 19. júlí kl. 17.

Anna Mields dvelst nú á gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins og er þekkt fyrir að vinna útrfá hefðbundnu kyrralífi og fetisma.
Í DaLí Gallery fjallar hún um hina ímynduðu fertugu konu Sibille Scmidt frá A - Þýskalandi, tilfinningalíf hennar og sterialtypu síns tíma.

DaLí gallery er opið laugardaga og sunnudaga kl.14-17 meðan sýningar standa yfir.Sýning Önnu Mields er til 31. júlí.

Anna Mields s.6908630


http://daligallery.blogspot.com/

Anna – Katharina Mields

Gestalistamaður gestavinnustofu í júlí Er þýska listakonan Anna –Katharina Mields.
Hún mun opna sýninguna Sibille í Da-Lí galleríi 19. júní.
Einnig verður hún með sýningu í Deiglunni helgina 25. -27. júní sem hún vinnur í samvinnu við listakonuna Lindu Franke frá Berlín.

Anna – Katharina Mields is currently undertaking a one-month residency in the guest studio of the Gil society in akureyri.

During her stay she will show at gallery Dali (opening 19.07. ‘Sibille’) and for a weekend at gallery deiglan (25.07. -27.07.) a collaboration between her and the Berlin based artist Linda Franke will be shown.

Anna Mields recent work deals with association themes of still life tradition and hyperreality. She is using simple ways of reproduction as a starting point and plays with moments and aesthetics of exaggerated reality. Often presented or displayed on structures like furniture or architectural elements a banal object (often food) becomes a character or fetish in its appearance.
In her work display and object are even parts of the sculptural sign. There she constructs associations around the everyday object of the domestic space and the disregarded object in the public space.

Deliberately Mields is constructing moments when controlled or constrained actions happen to those chosen objects. Through this a state of mind is projected onto them and the object is loaded up with meaning and value. Almost too weak to carry its given weight associations are changed and meaning is shifting.

Either captured with the camera or forced into the stillness of a sculptural state, the object itself is then trapped in its narcissistic cycle.

Within the video everyday food products occur alienated from its usual appearance and there specific movement is created through a reformative act. Within those situations the former disregarded object gains meaning signifying different conditions of the human body.

Things fall. Things are thrown. Cucumber, onion, shoes, flour…

According to Heidegger, we are ‘thrown’ into the world: it exists before our appearance, it did not invite us. We do not invent our being; we enter into being that is always already present in the world. What enters here the outside world is foodstuff. It flies out and just the sound reminds us of the fatal impact on the ground. (Video loop foreign body sensation, 2006)

In the video ‘Falling Lettuce’, architectural elements control and direct the movement of the organic shape of a lettuce head. The lettuce head rolls, falls, and gets smashed on top of a perfect, shiny white staircase: a staircase to heaven just populated by lettuce, rhythmically and repetitively falling down. Is it a kitchen surface? Why is lettuce falling? Is it a rolling head?

Alienated and fragmentary appears the Everyday object in Mields work and through this she generates humorous and absurd questions. The mysticism is hidden but always encouraging and playing with associations to the human body.

Mields is interested in the subtle mysticism in Icelanders everyday life, which stands in a crass contrast to the present state of Hi-tech industry and tourism on their island.
I am coming Iceland!

Thank you Iceland!

Hannah opening in galleriBOX

Hannah Kasper

Listamaður Gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins í júní er Hannah Kasper. Hún heldur sýningu í gallerí BOX 21. – 29. júní.

Innblásin af draumum, bíómyndum, gömlum byggingum, bernskuminningum og ímyndunum eru málverk Hönnuh Kasper af yfirgefnu innanhúsrými laustengd atburðarrás í ímynduðu ævintýri. Samhengi ævintýrisins ræðst af nærveru óséðrar söguhetjunnar sem er í stöðugri leit að einhverju eða einhverjum. Viðfangsefni málverkanna eru leikmunir sem tengjast atburðarrás sögunnar og gjarnan minningum, draumum eða ótta listamannsins. Rýmið er notað til að búa til leiksvið þar sem áhorfendur geta nýtt sér sjónrænar vísbendingar sem gefnar eru og skapað þær frásagnir sem þeir vilja.
Hér er á ferðinni hugleiðing um hið yfirgefna og jafnframt afneitun vitræns raunsæis en einnig samspils ljóss og sjónarhorns. Málningin er lagskipt og stundum skafin upp til að afhjúpa teikninguna eða yfirborð viðarins sem er undirliggjandi eins og beinagrind yfirgefinnar byggingar eða þokukenndrar minningar.
Ákvörðunin um að myndgera umhverfi sem byggist á ímyndunarafli umbreytir rýminu af meðvitaðu óraunsæi.
Hannah Kasper er fædd í New York 1981. Hún útskrifaðist með MFA gráðu frá Glasgow School of Art í Skotlandi og er með BFA gráðu í málaralist úr Tyler School of Art í Philadelphia og Róm.

Hannah Kasper is a guest in our studio in june. She is having an exhibit in Gallery BOX in june 21 – 29.

Inspired by dreams, movies, old buildings, childhood memory and fiction, Hannah Kasper’s paintings of vacant interiors are loosely episodic scenes of an imagined adventure. The constant in this adventure is an unseen protagonist who is searching for something or someone. Objects in the paintings are props that allude to the actions of the story, and often to the artist’s own memories, dreams and fears. The interior is used to create a stage upon which viewers can take the visual clues provided and project the narratives they wish -- to look for what is missing.
There is consideration toward the concept of ruin and abandon, as well as a denial of logical realism such as light sources or perspective. Paint is layered and sometimes peeled off to reveal drawing or wood underneath, like the skeleton of an abandoned building or a blurred memory. The decision to depict an environment that is based in fantasy renders the space decidedly unreal.
Hannah Kasper was born in New York in 1981. She received her MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and her BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome.

OPEN STUDIO 26.04.2008

TRACES, MISTAKES AND LEFTOVERS

L I M B O

Laugardaginn 26. april verður HANNY AHERN með opna Gestavinnustofu frá 18:00-22:00

Allir velkomnir

HANNY AHERN: Fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskólanum

Hanny Ahern flutti fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskóla Akureyrar þann 9. Apríl.
Við viljum minna á að hún verður með opna vinnustofu þann 24. Apríl 2008.
Allir velkomnir.

Hanny Ahern had a lecture in the Akureryi School of Visual art on 9. April.
We would like to remind everyone that she will be having an open studio on 24. april 2008. Everyone is welcome.

HANNY AHERN

Hanny Ahern dvelur í Gestavinnustofunni í Apríl.
Hún verður með fyrirlestur í Myndlistaskóla Akureyrar þann 9. april klukkan 13:00.
Einnig verður hún með opna vinnustofu 24. apríl 2008.


Hanny Ahern Has a BA from Bennington College In Vermont (US). She hales form Connecticut in the U.S. and is also a citizen of Ireland were she like to spend time as part of the theme tat she finds herself in cold wet weather frequently.

Prior to arriving at the guest studio Hanny was Living and working in London drawing in a rather traditional way at the princes drawing school. In the past she has worked with many mediums to describe her own visual cosmos. Mostly she prefers to use cleaning and domestic products as a way to shift the mundane into the magical. While here in Akureyri where Hanny is delighted to be, she will be rethinking to discover her long term goal of working in many ways to see and use visual arts as research as well as means of making and simulating beauty of the natural world. She asks if it is not only materials surrounding us.. are images enough? Perhaps sound? Hanny is excited to be in Iceland and about the possibities of mankind.

Nánar upplýsingar um Hanny er að finna á heimasíðunni

www.hannyahern.com

Openings; Robert - Paul & Erin

Erin & Karen



Erin's work / Verk eftir Erin



Robert & Paul



and their work / og verk þeirra

ROBERT - PAUL & ERIN GLOVER

This Thursday, 20th March our Canadian guests artists will be opening two exhibitions. ROBERT FORTIN and PAUL MALINOWSKI will be opening the exhibition A Small Plot of Land at POPULUS TREMULA. The exhibition opens at 14:00 and will be open throughout the easter weekend, from 14:00 to 17:00.
ROBERT and PAUL will also be presenting their book Somewhere Near Here.

Erin Glover will be opening her exhibition, A Forest for Iceland in GALLERY BOX on the 20th, not the 22nd as previously advertised. The exhibition opens at 14:00. and will be open throughout the easter weekend, from 14:00 to 17:00.

In addition, on Friday 21. March. PAUL FORTIN will be performing his music in POPULUS TREMULA. THe house opens at 20:30 and the actual events starts at 21:00. Access is free as usual.



Fimmtudaginn næstkomandi, þann 20. mars munu kanadískir gestalistamenn Gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins á Akureyri opna sýningar sínar.
PAUL FORTIN og ROBERT MALINOWSKI munu opna sína sýningu, A Small Plot of Land, í POPULUS TREMULA kl. 14:00. PAUL og ROBERT munu einnig kynna bók sína Somewhere Near Here.
Sýningin verður opin yfir páska helgina, frá 14:00 - 17:00.

Erin Glover mun síðan opna sína sýningu, A Forest for Iceland í GALLERÝ BOX samdægurs, einnig kl 14:00. Sú sýning mun einnig vera opin yfir páska helgina, frá 14:00 - 17:00

Föstudaginn þann 21. mars mun PAUL síðan flytja tónlist sína í POPULUS TREMULA fyrir gesti og gangandi. Húsið opnar kl. 20:30 en atburðurinn byrjar kl. 21:00. Það er frítt inn að venju.

GESTAVINNUSTOFA GILFÉLAGSINS, POPULUS TREMULA, GALLERÍ BOX og KETILHÚSIÐ kynna sýningar, bókaútgáfu og raftónlistarkvöld á vegum kanadísku listamannanna,ERIN GLOVER, ROBERT MALINOWSKI og PAUL FORTIN.
15. - 25. mars 2008

AKUREYRI ARTIST STUDIO, POPULUS TREMULA, GALLERY BOX and KETILHUS present a multi venue exhibition, book launch and an evening of electronic sound by Canadian artists, ERIN GLOVER, ROBERT MALINOWSKI and PAUL FORTIN.

Exhibitions at:
POPULUS TREMULA
GALLERY BOX
KETILHUS

Location:
AKUREYRI, ICELAND

Artists:
ERIN GLOVER – Gallery Box
ROBERT MALINOWSKI – Populus Tremula
PAUL FORTIN- Populus Tremula and Ketilhus

Dates:
Beginning Sat. March 15th and continuing with events until Tuesday, March 25th

Exhibition Receptions:

PAUL FORTIN presents “Boilermakers” on KETILHUS windows – Saturday, March 15th – 2:00 p.m.

ROBERT MALINOWSKI and PAUL FORTIN presents “ A Small Plot of Land” - an exhibition of sculpture and Installation and “Somewhere Near Here” a limited edition book of collaborative drawings at POPULUS TREMULA – Thursday March 20th – 2:00 p.m.

PAUL FORTIN – An evening of electronic music, sound and video performed at POPULUS TREMULA – Friday, March 21st – 9:00pm

ERIN GLOVER presents “a forest for Iceland” at GALLERY BOX Saturday, March 22nd – 2:00 p.m.



AKUREYRI, MARCH 9, 2008…Akureyri Artist Studio, Populus Tremula, Gallery Box and Ketilhus are please to present the multi venue exhibitions and book launch of Canadian artists and Akureyri Artist Studio residents Erin Glover, Robert Malinowski and Paul Fortin.

The three resident artists are pleased to present new visual art installations focusing on work inspired by their previous stay in Iceland in May 2007. Mr. Fortin presents “Boilermakers”, an installation of adhesive sign vinyl applied to the large windows of the Ketilhus. The artwork references the original use of the Ketilhus – a building that housed the boilers that powered the former factories on the street. Now that the buildings have been converted to galleries and artist studios, the Ketilhus remains a center of the street, housing the Gil Society and a multi-use space focusing on performances, exhibitions and musical events. The following week Ms. Glover will present “a forest for Iceland” at Gallery Box while Mr. Malinowski and Mr. Fortin will present “A Small Plot of Land” at Populus Tremula. In Ms’ Glovers piece, the artist will bring with her from Canada, a small artistic forest for the treeless Iceland and install it in the Gallery Box exhibition space. During this time, Mr. Malinowski and Mr. Fortin present “A Small Plot of Land”, an exhibition that focuses on new sculptural pieces based on the idea of building a home – both physically and psychologically, and where these ideas fit into the landscape around us. Along with this exhibition, Populus Tremula will launch “Somewhere Near Here”, a publication of Mr. Malinowski’s and Mr. Fortin’s collaborative drawings. This intimate, limited edition book is the fifteenth such publication that the gallery has launched and has now become a tradition and an anticipated event in Akureyri. On the evening of Friday, March 21st, Mr. Fortin will present a casual evening of electronic sound and video at the Populus Tremula Cabaret.

With events and exhibitions unfolding over a ten day period and at three different venues, these exhibitions fall under a busy schedule for the cultural institutions of Akureyri, during the week leading up to and over the Easter holidays.

Paul Fortin í Ketilhúsinu

Listamaðurinn Paul Fortin sem dvelur nú í gestavinnustofunni vinnur nú að því að setja upp listaverk í glugga Ketilhússins í Listagilinu á Akureyri.Formleg opnun verður næst komandi laugardag, 15. mars

Our guest-artist, Paul Fortin is putting up an artwork in the windows of the Ketilhús building in Kaupangsstræti, Akureyri. A formal opening is on saturday, March 15.

ROBERT - PAUL - ERIN GLOVER

Þrír listamenn deila gestavinnustofunni í Mars 2008. Robert Mailinowski, Paul Fortin og Erin Glover. Þau koma öll frá Kanada.
Robert og Paul verða með sýningu í Populus Tremula 21. mars og Erin Glover mun sýna í galleriBOXi sama dag. Auglýst síðar.



ROBERT MALINOWSKI



The drawings in my current body of work deal with relationships. The portrayal of these relationships varies. Some drawings illustrate people involved together in a situation, while other images show individuals in a solitary moment. To stage these relationships a representation of each character is rendered. Specific gestures and postures are assigned to these characters. Along with physical portrayals, a further enhancement is made. Surrounding these individuals are symbols. The symbols vary depending on the mood of each character and the situation that they are involved in. Hearts, numbers, letters or a combined variety of symbols are used to give thought and emotion a physical presence on the page. Since our thoughts make up so much of who we are I feel that it is important to trace these internal elements. The intention of these drawings is to examine the physical as well as the internal state of an individual.

Robert Malinowski was born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. It was here along the rapids of St. Mary and the shores of Lake Superior that Robert waited to see the subtle lines of life. It was also here where he waited amongst the industrial nature of the area. In the quietest of the night he could always hear the machinery of the steel plant. It was while listening to these sounds that he realized man’s material evolution was in close timing with nature’s. Robert’s work entertains the thought that one is not only shaped by their environment, but that one shapes the environment in which they are in. It is in this environmental regeneration that Robert traces his lines. His move to Toronto, Ontario allowed him to develop a new vocabulary with his images and sculptural forms. Robert’s formal art education from the Ontario College of Art allowed him to participate in the off campus exchange program in Florence, Italy for one year where he further developed the images that populate his work. Robert’s artwork has been exhibited with galleries at the Affordable Art Fair in New York as well as the Toronto International Art Fair in Toronto. His work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada.


Robert is currently represented in Canada by XEXE Gallery in Toronto and AK Collins Gallery in Port Hope, Ontario.


PAUL FORTIN




Paul Fortin originally hails from Peterborough, a community nestled in the mixed agricultural and woodland landscapes of the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario. His formal art training has taken him to the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and to the Nova Scotia college of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over the past ten years he has lived a somewhat nomadic lifestyle settling in and moving throughout numerous regions of Canada. This has allowed for the collection of a vast database of visual imagery, both two and three dimensional, which has been used to create an eclectic and diverse body of paintings, sculptures and installations. His work is strongly influenced by connections and disconnection with environments (both natural and manmade) and draw upon the emotion of loneliness and feelings of emptiness. His move to Inuvik, Northwest Territories in 2004 along with the unique arctic geography, isolation and the study of Inuit prints and graphics has been a major influence in his work. Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and has been awarded artist in residence positions at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canada Council International Residency Program at CCA in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Kulturhuset USF in Bergen Norway and artist in residence at the Gil-Society in Akureyri, Iceland. Work from 1997 to the present can be found in public and private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. Paul is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa, Ontario.

Fortin recently returned to Canada after nine months in the Caribbean and Europe. He was a 2006 recipient of the Canada Council for the Art’s international residency program at CCA7 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After launching the exhibition Boca del Drago at the InterAmericas Gallery in Port of Spain, Fortin travelled to Norway where he spent the first three months of 2007 working on new paintings while on residency at USF Verftet in Bergen. The work produced during this time was exhibited with Apertura Gallery in Toronto and the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, Yukon. From Norway, Fortin continued to travel and research in Paris, Krakow, Venice and Rome while on route to Iceland where, in May, he participated in the Gil-Society artist in residence program and the Jokulhlaup exhibition. Fortin continued research in Europe throughout June where he traveled to summer exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and London before returning to Canada. 2008 will be a busy year with exhibitions scheduled in Ottawa and Iceland, more travel, research and work being produced in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Antwerp, Berlin, France and Spain.

Fortin has been selected by the Magenta Foundation to be included in the second volume of the Carte Blanche collection - Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting. The main purpose of this book is to provide a survey and showcase of the current state of painting in Canada. The book will be published in Autumn 2008 and will be available through book sellers across Canada and around the world.

Erin Glover


E d u c a t i o n
2 0 0 4 BFA Ontario College of Art & Design
2 0 0 0 AOCAD Ontario College of Art & Design
1 9 9 8 / 9 9 OCAD Florence Off Campus Program

My work is comprised of two consecutive series. The first is a collection of garments that wrap, cover and protect. Each article of clothing is shown empty, but carrying shapes and forms that reference the body. These articles of costume serve as our social armor and become an extension of our own skin. The second series is a gathering of personal objects and furniture taken from domestic settings. All of the items are worn from use and tend to adopt grand and layered personalities when transplanted into new compositions.

Each image begins with a photograph. The pictures are transferred onto paper or board and layered with pastel, pencil and paint. Lines both real and imagined extend beyond the edge of each image allowing for shapes and textures to become softened. The pieces are small pockets of private space.

PETER OPENING DAY

Peter and Björg

Jón Laxdal og Peter

Róbert and Freyja

ARTIST TALK IN THE ART SCHOOL

14. february Peter Alexander had a talk in the Akureyri School of Art.

OPENING IN DEIGLAN

GILFÉALGIÐ KYNNIR:

Laugardaginn 16. febrúar klukkan 14:00 opnar Peter Alexander sýninguna "Putins Playground" í Deiglunni.
Sýningin stendur til 20. febrúar 2008

Allir VELKOMNIR


Putins Playground (The second cold war) P.R ALEXANDER

25 photographic constructions from a Siberian wasteland
Alexander's principle interests primarily concern architectural and therefore social isolation.
Buildings are seen as lonely giants, as lost children perhaps, unable to communicate with each other let alone a foreign visitor.

Their purpose as functioning pieces of social and political design become increasingly questionable, both with the passage of time and rapid industrialization of the economies which first created them.

Alexander's photographic techniques have been developed over the last 9 years, from mainly shooting documentary and reportage based works, in Venice, Budapest, Istanbul and Copenhagen to a tighter more critical control over far fewer subjects.

The framing of the building is crucial, demonstrating the relationship with its political context. no man is an island, a man once said, however Alexander draws strong parallels between his personal existence and the buildings he chooses to photograph.

Everyday life for him is extremely complicated, aware of the intellectual process involved in the conception and design of his subjects, he is uniquely positioned to extract the precise information from them with explicit clarity, removing what he sees as unnecessary or ugly, such as trees, people cars soft edges and background noise, making sense of madness.

The display and layout of the images, is as important as the mode of capture. His use of negative space, of anti spaces and anti shapes to underline important aspects of the building or space to allow the viewer to consider the importance of the architecture as he sees it.

A fiercely political interest in Russia and its modern history formed the basis for a 6 week photographic exploration from the Ukraine to Hong Kong, entirely alone with only 2 bags and tweed jacket. during these travels, Alexander was arrested twice, chased in a train station, barked at by teenagers, ejected from 7 hotels, over charged for a shoeshine and lost 1.5 stones.

The 25 works demonstrate not only the range of varied and interesting buildings erected during the post Stalin era, but look to the future, to prophesise a dystopian inevitability, that awaits the west.

Use of Scale is extremely important in Alexander's work, this becomes critical in a country such as Russia or China, where the rules do not apply,he readily exploits this becoming playful and witty with the buildings form, narrative and purpose. Where architectural technologies and fashions are largely unaffected by western influence and labour is cheap, materials are readily available buildings in Russia assume an almost neolithic status.

In what, still is, a giant sandpit for the impotent businessman, Alexander's portrayal of a modern Russia in decline is utterly compelling

PETER ALEXANDER

Peter Alexander dvelur í Gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins febrúar 2008.

Peter Alexander er fæddur 1984, býr og starfar í London í Englandi. Hann lauk B. Sc prófi frá University College London –Bartlett Architect School árið 2007.
Hann dvaldi í Hollufgård Gestavinnustofunni í Óðinsvéum árið 2005. Hann vann fyrir skúlptúristann og skartgripahönnuðinn Andrew Logan árið 2005. Árið 2006 var hann aðstoðarmaður ljósmyndarans Wolfgang Tillmans 2006. Wolfgang Tillmans fékk bresku Turnerverðlaunin árið 2000.

OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS

Gestavinnustofa Gilfélagsins auglýsir eftir umsóknum fyrir 2009. Umsóknarfrestur er til 15. Apríl 2008.

The Gil Society’s guest artists’ studio is open for applications for the year 2009. Applications must be sent before April 15. 2008.

APPLICATION FORM

OPENING DAY

                 Steinn - Þormóður - Djonam

Æskuljómi 

Deiglan
Opið alla daga nema mánudaga kl. 13-17. 

Sýningu lýkur 27. janúar.
Aðgangur ókeypis.
Amy Rush og Djonam Saltani
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AMY RUSH (frá Ástralíu) og Djonam Saltani (frá Frakklandi) heita tveir ungir listamenn sem hafa dvalið í gestavinnustofu Gilfélagsins á Akureyri og sýna nú verk sín í Deiglunni. Rush vinnur hólógrafísk verk, eða svokölluð „Rainbow holograms“ lík þeim sem eru notuð á greiðslukortum, og taka þau á sig mynd sem flýtur og færist eftir stöðu áhorfendans. Frásögnin í verkunum er tvinnuð saman úr frelsi blómabarnsins og barnslegu prinsessuævintýri þar sem áhorfandinn fær að fylla í glompurnar.
Djonam Saltani sýnir litla keramikskúlptúra af flugvélum, ýmiss konar geimskip, sjóræningja, geimflaugar og orrustuvélar, sem hanga á víð og dreif um rýmið, líkt og í herbergi unglings sem hefur einangrað sig með því að setja saman módel. Jarðefnið og myndefnið skapar
viðeigandi spennu sín á milli þar sem formið vísar til flugs en efnið til aðdráttarafls jarðar.
Verk Rush og Saltanis eru ólík en vinna saman. Regnboginn sem smitast á veggi vegna kastljósa á hólógrafíur gefur rýminu léttleika, teygir hólógrafíurnar út í rýmið, og vegur skemmtilega á móti þyngd hangandi keramikskúlptúranna. Og yfir Deiglunni svífur lífleg hippastemning og æskuljómi.

Morgunblaðið, 26. jan 2008 // Jón B.K. Ransu

Installing DAY

Amy and Lundja Installing holograms

ARTISTS TALK IN THE ART SCHOOL

Amy and Djonam having a talk about their work in Akureyri Art School.

OPENING IN DEIGLAN

Laugardaginn 19. febrúar klukkan 14:00  opnar Amy Rush sýninguna rainbow holograms í Deiglunni á Akureyri. 

Einning verður Djonam Saltani með opna gestavinnustofu á sama tíma. Hann mun sýna skúlptúra sem hann hefur verið að vinna að.

Sýningin stendur til 27. jan. Opið eftir samkomulagi. Hægt er að email Amy og boða komu sína. Netfang Amy er amyonholidayz@hotmail.com

Allir velkomnir

AMY RUSH and DJONAM SALTANI

Amy Rush and Djonam Saltani are staying in Guest Studio in January 2008

Amy Rush born 1980 Sydney Australia. Studied at the College of Fine Arts Sydney, Australia. After becoming interested in holography she went to the Center for Holographic Arts NYC to undertake a one year internship. In 2005 she was offered a fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Koln, Germany to work further in the medium of digital holography. Last year she fished her thesis titled “Rainbows – The Superhighway of Travel Between Material And Virtual Worlds” which Focused on rainbow holography. Currently amid a world tour of her exhibition Rainbow Galactica which showcases her work spaning the last 4 years along side the works of friends. First shown in Sydney, Australia, then NYC last month, now in here in Iceland before heading to London and then Germany. Her work plays with the popular misconception of holograms being copies of their subjects, and uses this misconception to create a new authored rainbow reality. The images share the characteristics of a rainbow as well as depicting rainbow imagery which combined allows you to enter into this world via the reoccurring figure in the work. A kitsch aesthetic with a narrative sharing stories of eternal moments captured in moving 3d rainbow holography.


Djonam Saltani is a young artist that never fixed himself in one particular medium,
Acting as a sick victim and his own doctor. His practice revolves around the paradox of being a spectator and a creator, he consider himself as a philosophical sponge, absorbing the sweaty contents of society weather it is cultural, political, mythological and squeeze them back into fantasized distorted sculptures drawings installations.
Lately he focused within the medium of ceramics ,creating a body of work standing against the traditional codes of pottery, using clay as a child uses Lego blocks. He developed his concept of horizontal un-monumentality by sculpting perverted visions of cities and other parallel realms

Artists 2008

01.01 2008 Amy Rush Ástralía

01.01 2008 Djonam Saltani Frakkland 

01.02 2008 Peter Alexander England

01.03 2008 Paul Fortin Kanada

01.03 2008 Robert Malinowski Kanada  

01.03 2008 Erin Glover Kanada

01.04 2008 Hanny Ahern USA

01.05 2008 FREE SPACE

01.06 2008 Hannah Kasper USA

01.07 2008 Anna-K Mields Þýskaland

01.08 2008 Raquel Mendes Portúgal
01.09 2008 Anna McCarthy Þýskaland
01.10 2008 Kazuko Kizawa Japan
01.11 2008 Miyuki Tsushima USA
01.12 2008 Van der Bie, Esther Sviss

The Guest Studio

The visitors' studio is at Kaupvangsstræti, in the very heart of Listagil, Akureyri’s Art Centre. The studio is owned by the Municipality of Akureyri, and the Gil Society is in charge of its operations. The premises consist of a furnished apartment and working facilities.
The studio enables visiting artists to concentrate on their work by providing them with this accommodation, for 1 month at a time and, simultaneously, to acquaint the townspeople with artists of diverse origin and their art, thus broadening the town's cultural horizon.
Applications must arrive before 15. of April. Applications will be answered in June and the fee for staying in the Guest studio (20.000 IKR, bank cost not included) must be payed by the 15th of August. The fee is used for advertising events, phone bills, electricity, renewal of equipment etc.
It has been a custom that visitors in the studio promote their work in one way or another during their stay. Artists must hold a lecture on their work on behalf of the application committee, which is comprised of artists and volunteers organising the visitiors’ studio. The artists must also at the end of each term open their studio for exhibition.

There are no fundings or grants that come with the visitors’ studio, but the artists receive a signed, formal invitation and the application committee will be at hand to assist as it can with funding.
Artists interested in having exhibitions in Akureyri, can contact the application comittee with requests and ideas at: studio.akureyri@gmail.com. Moreover, artists staying during summer have an oppurtinity to participate in the annual Summer Arts festival which is comprised of various events from 23. june to the end of August in Akureyri.

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Studio FlOOR PLAN

Members of the application committee for the term 2008-2009 are
Hertha Richardt Úlfarsdóttir




Hertha Richardt Úlfarsdóttir was born in Egilsstaðir 6th september 1983 and graduated with a diploma from Akureyri School of Visual Art, Fine art in spring 2008.





Óskar Árnason was born in Reykjavik on the 4th of april 1985 and is a student of Fine arts at the Akureyri School of Visual Art.