The West Wall Gallery 20.08. – 04.09.2005 Education 2001-2004 The Icelandic Academy of the Arts (LHI)  Fine Arts B.A. Degree 1997-2001  Breiholts College – Art Department 1995-2000  Grafarvogur Music School 1990-1993  Sigursveins D. Kristinsson Music School Seminars and workshops 2005  Space and composition, The Danish National School of Theater and NordScen, Copenhagen 2004   w. Roni Horn, LHI ReykjavÃk w. Wolfgang Müller, LHI ReykjavÃk 2003   w. Roni Horn, LHI ReykjavÃk WhoÂs the storyteller? KKH, Stockholm Art Fairs 2005  NOVA YOUNG Art Fair, Chicago Scope Art Fair, New York Solo Exhibitions 2005 Work 19  Gallery Vesturveggurinn, […]
2005
HILLS AND DRAWINGS
Main Gallery 20.08. – 18.09.2005 The painter Carl Fredrik Hill went crazy in Paris 1878. He was a respected artist with a great ambition to win the Grand Prix at the Paris Saloon. Having been dismissed four years in a row, the void between ambition and reality possibly triggered the development of a paranoid schizofrenic psycosis. His last works, obscene in motif and painted entirely in prussian blue and cadmium yellow, were destroyed by his collegues in order to preserve his reputation as a Ârespectable landscapepainter.ÂÂ According to himself, works like these had never been made before. After a […]