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<\/a><\/p>\nI prefer to work in an undefined area.\u00c2\u00a0 That is where the possibilities are, the doubt, the risk and the excitement.\u00c2\u00a0 Curiosity leads you on, and doubt challenges you.<\/p>\n
What usually happens is that the motive, usually an object, material or a living organism, comes into contact with some kind of spatial situation, like a room, or a picture format.\u00c2\u00a0 This occurs by the way of a photograph or video, then a computer, and after that real space. My works can be called an ongoing research on the fusion of object and space, picture and frame, representation and elasticity.<\/p>\n
The works often seem to take a form that relates to painting in one way or another.\u00c2\u00a0 Not because I necessarily want them to, it just happens naturally.\u00c2\u00a0 Even an 8 mm film I made in 1980 is basically a painting, although during my studies I did not paint. This might lead you to the conclusion that painting is a state of mind, or a method of observation, rather than a media.<\/p>\n
Material versus pixels, or the possibility of working in a material way through an immaterial media is of course a con-tradiction.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of the aspects of the installation \u00c2\u0093Puddles\u00c2\u0094 on show now at Skaftfell.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a video, sound and photo installation, but at the same time it has very physical qualities.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u0093Puddles\u00c2\u0094 is related to a photo installation I made while I was studying in 1979.\u00c2\u00a0 It consisted of two black and white photographs installed on opposite walls.\u00c2\u00a0 One showed a drop of milk coming out of a bottle.\u00c2\u00a0 The other showed the drop landing in a puddle of milk.\u00c2\u00a0 The camera, and thereby the viewer was situated in between.<\/p>\n
The sound is an important part of the work, and underlines its spatial qualities.\u00c2\u00a0 It also activates the viewer, who automatically attempts to connect sound and picture.<\/p>\n
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Tumi Magn\u00c3\u00basson has participated in a number of exhibitions through out the world.<\/p>\n
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1957 Born in Reykjav\u00c3\u00adk<\/p>\n
1976-78 The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts<\/p>\n
1978-80 AKI Enschede, Holland<\/p>\n
1980-81 Universidad de Granada, Spain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_exhibition_status":0,"wds_primary_location":0,"footnotes":""},"exhibition_status":[140],"location":[],"class_list":["post-9948","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","hentry","exhibition_status-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/9948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/9948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_status?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}