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Manhattan
based Icelandic
architect-designer-artist
Olafur Thordarson, has
works in four Denmark
exhibits
within a three weeks span.
Aside from his solo exhibition, he will have works in the
Scandinavia Design Beyond the Myth
exhibition which will open on September 15th, Lys Over Lylland; design is,
opening late August, and an ongoing exhibition
Utopia and
Reality at the Kunst og Industri Museet.
Olafur will open his solo
exhibition
In The Belly Of An Architect at
Galleri Nordlys on Frederiksborggade on September 16th. In
this exhibit he shows
a partial cross section of his works for the last 14 years. Mainly design
drawings, art works and small objects. He is
working
with
the idea that the gallery, being below street level, represents a kind of
void that you can enter and experience
a diversity of works in a tight space, an underside, a belly.
Where a surface of individual works
created over various periods of time
form an almost continuous surface made with
dissimilar projects.
Thordarson here presents 17 original works, along with some
other representations. This represents a diverse mix of art, design,
architecture and urban design creating a tight space.
These cover the walls and ceiling, giving an air of density
while respecting the making by hand and spontaneity which
characterizes so many of this works.
This will be Olafur's sixth solo
exhibition. He has had works
exhibited
in over fifty exhibitions, in Iceland, mainland Europe and in the United
States, ranging from architecture shows to art and design exhibits. His
works have also been
published.
in architecture and art periodicals.
A catalogue in a
limited edition of only 200 copies will be available at the exhibition.
Two texts are contributed
to this exhibition:
If... by
Laetitia Wolff
of Futureflair, design editor for Surface Magazine and formerly Editor In
Chief for Graphis
Magazine.
A state of becoming,
by
Adalsteinn Ingolfsson,
director of the Museum of Design and Applied Art (mudesa)
in Iceland.
Highlights include:
- 365 piece
How is the
weather, small oil on canvas paintings with the Icelandic weather map
for an entire year.
Created in 1997, these were initiated by Olafur’s conversations with
relatives constantly complaining about how much it rained. In his series,
each weather map shows rain, with differing gradations, density, angle etc.
- Project Iceland 3000, drawing on landmap and cast in resin, this work shows
a future vision for Iceland, with dams built across various convenient
features the Iceland topography. A commentary on the construction on
hydropower dams in Iceland, this work seems to have inspired a later
conservation group map of the future of Iceland.
- Myrkraspil hins gullna musteris, is a hung cast relief depicting the House
of Parliament as made of flexible gold.
- Full size
original design drawings of various works as well as urban
design and architectural drawings.
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Smaller objects including the Bukowski and Out of Time clock bodies.
click
here for high resolution images and
a complete list of works.
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