Ra Tack (b. 1988) is a Belgian painter and sound artist, living and working in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Their paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, often rendered in oil on large canvases. This installation features recent smaller works in oil stick on paper that are more intimate in scale. Tack’s compositions are composed of lush, expressive textures and colours, and deal with themes of transition, duality, love and longing. Tack’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo and group exhibitions in London, Ghent, Berlin, New York, Copenhagen, and Marrakech. One of the leading painters working in East Iceland today, their work […]

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Skaftfell announcing the opening of its summer exhibition The Arctic Creatures Revisited, on view to the public from May 6 – August 20, 2023. The exhibition features more than 20 photographs by The Arctic Creatures, a a collective of three artists — visual artist Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, filmmaker and director Óskar Jónasson, and actor/theatre director Stefán Jónsson. On long hikes into the Icelandic wilderness, the artists play the dramatis personæ in scenes choreographed and staged using found objects as both inspiration and set design. The resulting series of photographs, taken between 2012-22, are by turns comedic and tragic, antic and seriously […]

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