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The
American Scandinavian Society and the Trygve Lie Gallery
present
THE
SAGA SPIRIT ALIVE
7 ICELANDIC ARTISTS OF TODAY
PHOTOGRAPHY,
PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND MIXED MEDIA
View
a webgallery of the exhibition
Click
here to see a web version with glimpses of the video installation
Fire, Fire Fire, Fire Fire Fire by Hekla Dögg
Jónsdóttir
February
22 through March 25, 7 Icelandic artists very much of today,
all very different in purpose and expression, will show
their works in the Trygve Lie Gallery, 317 E. 52nd Street,
in N.Y.C. Their diversity speaks for the multi-faceted character
of the society that is their remarkable North Atlantic island
homeland.
Aron
Reyr Sverrisson
Birta Guðjónsdóttir
Davið Örn Halldórsson
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir
Hlaðgerður Iris Björnsdóttir
Oli G. Johannsson
Vala Hafstað Enard
Curated
by Elfi von Kantzow Alvin and Laufey Bustany
February
22 - March 25, 2007
AN
EXHIBIT…
For
12 centuries, Iceland —one of the earliest successful
democracies— has been a fascinating place and continues
to be. Since seafaring settlers founded it in the mid-800s,
its population of spirited souls has not only reflected
a remarkably independent spirit, but an open attitude towards
what is always ‘out there’ to be learned from
distant shores. Its innovative sons and daughters, who long
ago gave the world the great Saga literature, have skillfully
traversed the seas as honest traders and daring adventurers.
Taking
much with them out into the world, they have seen fit to
bring much home, as well. The population of Iceland numbers
just over 300,000, certainly too few, some experts say to
develop and maintain a diversified, modern society. Nonetheless,
today, the well-educated population of this island nation
has come to enjoy one of the world’s highest standards
of living and a cosmopolitan life style. The quality of
life in modern Iceland is richly evident in this culture’s
embrace of the arts. Painting, literature, architecture,
theater, and music thrive as a part of daily life and are
esteemed.
Without
eroding that which is the distinctly Icelandic national
character, but rather very effectively reflecting it, the
modern Icelandic artist can be seen to belong comfortably
in and to the world as well.
…NOT
TO MISS.
Notes
by Rolf Kristian Stang
This
event is sponsored in part by
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