Hangman´s Rock - The Delerium of Vision 2012
The main image shows remains of Kjarval´s painting in Garðahraun in spring 2011. For almost a quarter of a century the Icelandic painter Kjarval 1885-1972 traveled to a specific area in Garðahraun nearby Reykjavik in order to paint a formation of rocks and lava. He named the vicinity " Hangman´s Rock ". Referring to the phenomenology of visual perception, the exhibition reveals the artist´s complex subject matter and why the rock evoked such varied manifestations on the artist´s canvases. Dissolving borders between external and internal reality - into the delirium of vision. By exhibiting selected works by 4 generations of Icelandic artists the history in Icelandic contexts is drawn from Kjarval to contemporary artists of today.
2/6/2012
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26/8/2012
Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjavalsstaðir
























