Articles by: Tinna

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Folk Tale

Skaftfell proudly presents a unique staging of the voice sculpture Folk Tale, Ævintýri, by Magnús Pálsson as a part of the ongoing summer exhibition, The Assembly of the Hyperboreans. The event will take place in a storehouse on the outskirts of town in collaboration with the fishmeal and oil factory Síldarvinnslan. Magnús Pálsson was born 1929 in Eskifjörður, East Iceland, and it one of the most influential Icelandic artists. His vast body of work extends over six decades and crosses the borders of visual art, theatre and music. The voice sculpture is based on an Italian story about a gardener that […]

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Ráðhildur Ingadóttir, Hægt og örugglega, Seyðisfjörður 2014-2016

Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive for second residency

Skaftfell welcomes residency artists: Kati Gausman, Richard Skelton and Ráðhildur Ingadóttir. The artists first stayed at Seyðisfjörður in September 2014 for one month and simultaneously launched their participation in Frontiers in Retreat. They have now arrived for the second residency period, May-June 2016. Kati Gausmann is a sculptor living and working in Berlin. Her work is concerned with movement, rhythm, and action as form-generating processes. In her artistic practice she combines the exploration of different materials and their qualities with acts of drawing, installation, and performance. Artistic expeditions and theoretical investigations are an important part of her working methodology. With the artist group msk7 and as a […]

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