The Icelandic Printmakers
Association
presents draumbrot,
Olafur
Thordarson.
July 24th-August 7th.
Born:
Reykjavík, 1963
Teaching:
Rhode Island School of Design,
since 1999.
Has also been a guest critic
at Pratt,
Parsons School of Design, Columbia University
and Syracuse University.
Education:
Columbia University, Master of Architecture, New York 1990. University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
BS-Arch, Wisconsin 1986.
Residence:
New York, N.Y. since 1987.
Ideas are dreams.
Icelandic architect-artist Olafur Thordarson opens an exhibit with a
mixed selection of recent
independent small works made from various
materials and concepts. Most of these works are new
or have not been shown before.
Ideas are dreams. The
exhibition is a collection of Thordarson's
dreams where one wanders between dissimilar independent works, rather than a
single exhibit concept. Thordarson works with irony and the dark,
in a wide range of
medium between drawings, prototype works and sculptures. One can see a range
of Thordarson's drawings and photographs along with architectural models,
product prototypes, antiproducts and originals cast in silicones, resins and
rubbers.
In here, one will find the WMD ice cube tray antiproduct in the shape of
Iraq, cast in soft toxic resin. Several sculptural clock bodies explore the
meaning or concept of time, images connected with design and maps, computer
generated photographs, objects cast in concrete, works in oil on plywood.
Also there is a model of Ordabelgur, Thordarson's concept for an interactive
sound and light sculpture.
Most people would be
familiar with Thordarson's Delirium Tremens bottle stand, his Escargot clock
sculptures and some building and urban design proposals in Iceland. His
works have been shown in numerous places in the United States and Europe. In
Iceland his last solo exhibit was in 2002 in the Museum of Design and
Applied Art, and three of his objects are currently traveling in the large
European exhibiton "Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth-50 years of design".
His works have been featured in many magazines, newspapers and books around
the world, including Graphis Magazine, New York Times and the International
Design Yearbook.
A preview of the show
has been created online (press only) please e-mail
info@dingaling.net
for link and/or further information.
Opening Friday 5-8.
Open through August 7.