2015

Perception lab for color and shape

Perception lab for color and shape

In conjunction with the exhibition opening of Icelandic artists Eyborg Gudmundsdottir and Eyglo Hardardottir, Skaftfell will launch its seventh educational project. Since 2007 the Center has produced a total of six visual art educational activities tailored to the needs of the primary schools in East Iceland. This time, Icelandic artist Karlotta Blondal will teach a traveling workshop Perception lab for color and shape. The workshop will introduce students to artworks of Gudmundsdottir and Hardardottir and provide them with methods for studying the properties of color and shape. The workshop is available to the schools free of charge and is funded […]

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Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir & Eygló Harðardóttir

Eyborg Guðmundsdóttir & Eygló Harðardóttir

October 31, 2015 – February 13, 2016 Gallery Two person show featuring Eyborg Gudmundsdottir and Eyglo Hardardottir. Curated by Gavin Morrison. Eyborg Gudmundsdottir (1924-1977) and Eyglo Hardardottir (born 1964) are artists from two different generations. The work of both is abstract, Eyborg predominately made paintings, while Eyglo’s work is most often sculptural. Eyborg Gudmundsdottir’s work uses distinctive geometric forms and vibrant colours to suggest confounding spatial paradoxes. Although she had regular studio visits with Dieter Roth, and when she went to Paris studied with the op-artist Victor Vasarely, her paintings transcend specific influences. They display a continuity with the op-art […]

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