Málara skúlptúr.
Þegar maður gerir tilraun til að verða listamaður, þá er líklegt að þú lendir í ákveðinni skúffu, ég lenti í að vera málari eða grafíklistamaður. Ættu málarar að búa til höggmyndir? Ég er alveg ánægður þar; en listin er lævís og lipur, svo að stundum lætur hún mig gera ýmislegt sem ekki er ætlast til af mér eins og t.d. þennan skúlptúr. Apin er oft notaður sem tákn til að sýna skoplega hlið á atferli mannsins í vestrænni hefð, ég held að það sé vegna þess að hann apar eftir manninum og líkist honum, maður veit ekki heldur hvort málverk séu eitthvað meira í takt við raunveruleikan en önnur tjáning mannsins, en á þessum tima var málverkið dautt eina ferðina enn og salthringurin átti að vernda málaranum fyrir illum öndum utan frá, þetta var skemmtileg tilraun.
Painters sculpture.
When you make an attempt to become an artist, you’re likely to hit a certain catagory, I ended up as a painter or a graphics artist. But should painters create sculptures? I’m quite happy; but the art is cunning and agile, so sometimes it make me do some things that are not as expected of me as for example this sculpture. The ape is often used as to the satirising side of man’s behavior in Western tradition, I think it is because he behave as man and resembles him, but you do not know whether paintings are anything more in conetion with reality than other expressions but during this time, the painting was dead one more time, and the salt had to protect the painter from evil spirits from the outside. This was a somme experiance.
Málara skúlptúr. 90x26cm Blönduð tækni: plast, málning og salt. 2000
Painters sculpture. 90x26cm Mixed media: plastic, paint and salt. 2000
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Published by Daði Guðbjörnsson
Lives and work as an artist in Reykjavik.
Alter ego DADILISTO
I was born in Reykjavik: May 12, 1954. Grow up Kópavogur close to Reykavik, which was mostly built by refugees, who were not allocated land in Reykjavík for political reasons. Good time for children to play in half builded houses, or go to a small shelter and listen to the communist.
When I was 12 y.o. I decided to become a painter and, as my father resisted, it would not turn back.
After I have learnd Carpentry to make my father happy, I went to The school of Arts and Crafts, and ended up learning experimental art and new art media, I could take all the risks, I had lernd very practical profession to be able to make a living. I did not get started with creating so called “New media”, but began do painting with the good old oil colours. I was a part of movement in the eighties called “New Painting”. I then studied in Amsterdam for a year, mostly of graphic printing, but that time was a great gift for me, since I started working as a professional and have done so mostly since 1983.
I’ve been very lucky! I was one of the first to do, so called “New Panting” in Iceland, this promotion drew attention and I started selling my art works and could make a living in a decent life, all the time until the lucky famous “collapse” of the banks in Ieland, but at that time people mostly have to use their money in pay-as-you-go debt created by our economic system in Iceland, probably one of the worst in the world.
After that crash, I have been doing some extra work: teaching, city walk with tourist and so on, I have alsow been having pepole visiting my studio with some home-made food. But also received a grants.gov support for big exhibition in Art museum: Kjarvalsadir in 2011. This period has been nice, always good to get new challenges especially if one manages to take advantage of them. I recently had an exhibition of Mokka Kaffi in Reykjavik hat was successful.
I have been doing Sahajayoga for many years and have volunteered to teach and introduce.
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