On show on the west wall gallery in Skaftfell bistro are works from artists in residence Andrea Salerno and Nina Tobien, who stayed at Skaftfell in November and December of 2024. The works were made during their residency stay and where a part of a pop up exhibition during Skaftfells Advent open house in December. The exhibition is on view until 8th of February.
Andrea Salerno (Roma, 1989) is a visual artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. His recent work has focused on examining problems of visual representation of duality in relation to mechanical reproduction, and notions of originality and authorship in relation to translation. During his residency at Skaftfell, he has been working on a project based on a selection of works by Dieter Roth dealing with duplication, producing a series of remakes and unfaithful copies.
2 BECOME 1 (GESAMMELTE WERKE)
Paper weaving collage
17 × 23 cm
Two identical pages from Gesammelte Werke Band 20 (Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart 1972), featuring a portrait of the author, are taken out of their books and woven together, producing an image that is the same but different.
UNTITLED (DIETER/EMMETT)
Silkscreen and risograph
Edition of 45
21 × 29.7 cm
The spine of Dieter Roth’s Trophies (Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart 1979) is reproduced as two parallel editions of layered prints, revealing a secret feature of the original publication: a second dust jacket with a different title from friend and colleague Emmett Williams is hiding under the first jacket. öðrum titli eftir vinur og samstarfsmann Emmett Williams felur sig undir fyrstu kápunni.
Nina Tobien is a painter, ceramicist and researcher based in Berlin. During her residency Tobien is developing paintings and prints that are closely linked to Iceland in terms of their materiality. Through sustainable collecting, Tobien has been preserving plant colors in her archive and making them accessible to the viewer through fragile paintings.m málverkum sínum.
BLUE LIGT I PURPLE LIGHT
Set of eight drawings
2024
Found chalk pastels, mineral pigments (N 65° 15’ 47“ W 13° 59’ 25“ ), waterfall-water, ceramic on found paper
Each 35 x 30 cm
On November 27th, 2024 at around 03:30 PM I noticed two different lights through the windows of my studio at the Skaftfell Art Center. Towards Strandartindur mountain the light in the sky was bright blue and on the other side towards the Fjord and Bjólfur mountain the light glowed in soft purple. Of the few things already in the studio by the time I moved in was coloured paper in two shades. It happened to be that these shades were exactly the tones of the sky at that moment on November 27th. The series „Blue Light I Purple Light“ consists of eight drawings on these coloured papers (four which are hanging in the exhibition space). With chalk pastels I found in the studio I did frottages of the rocks I passed by during my walks in the mountains. The mineral pigments I painted with are made from the stones I found there.
