Ég hef verið að skanna ljósmyndir frá þeim tíma sem ég var í list námi í MHÍ. Ég var í svo kallari nýlistadeild og við vorum mikið að vinna með ljósmyndir og performasa. Ljósið er alltaf í forgrunni þegar verið er að vinna í sjónlistum og núna seinni árin hef ég einmitt verið að vinna með ljósmyndir sem ég mála í, þannig fyrgir tilrauna starfsemin manni líka þó maður vilji gjarnan vera „bara málari“. það er fróðlegt að sjá hvernig skólin fylgir manni alla leið rétt eins og þorpið fylgdi Jóni úr Vör alla tíð.
Photo and graph.
I have been scanning photographs from the time I was in Art Education at the Art school of Iceland at the time. I was in a Experimental art department and we worked very much with photos and performas. The light is always in the main roule when working on visual arts, and now I have just been working with photographs that I paint in for the last few years, so I keep on doing the experimental work, even altought one want to be “just a painter”. It is interesting to see how the school follows you all the way, just as the village followed our poet “Jón úr Vör” all the time.
Lifandi pensill og ljósapera. Olía á striga 44×55 cm. 1994,
The live of brush and light bulb. Oil on canvas 44×55 cm. 1994
Ljósmynd, sennilega frá árinu 1979.
Photo, probably since 1979
Pastel teikning, sennilega frá árinu 1974.
Pastel drawing, probably since 1974.
Spiral teiknaður í móðu á gleri. Spiral drawing in a fog of a glass.
Ljósmynd, sennilega frá árinu 1979.
Photo, probably since 1979
Sjálfið í þéttbýli. olía á striga. 2016 90×110 cm
Urban selfie. oil on canvas. 2016 90×110 cm
Tilraun til að gera performas þar sem er málað með ljósinu.Kind of mixture of performance painting with light, and photography Tilraun til að gera performas þar sem er málað með ljósinu.Kind of mixture of performance painting with light, and photography
Ljósmynd, sennilega frá árinu 1979.
Photo, probably since 1979
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.
Daði Guðbjörnsson
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