Ég held að upphaflega hafi skórin komið inn í list mína, sem einhverskonar tileinkun til H.C. Andersen vegna hins fræga ævintýris um prinsessuna og skóinn.
Ég hef líka málað skó sem vísa til myndar eftir Vincent Van Gogh en ég ætla ekki að skrifa um þá mynd meistarans enda hafa margir gert það.
En skór fyrir mér tákna fyrir mér bæði ferðalagið gegn um lífið og svo gefa; form og línur hans góða mynd af fegurð mannslíkamans, sem þeir veita skjól og styrkja.
Síðan hafa kynni mín af Sahajayoga leitt mig að dulhyggju sem gefa skónum nýja vídd, sem erfitt er að útskýra án vitneskjunar sem maður fær þar.
Shoes always go their way.
I think the shoes in my art, originally came as a kind of dedication to H.C. Andersen because of the famous adventures of the princess and the shoe.
I have also painted shoes that refer to the painting by Vincent Van Gogh but I’m not going to write about the master’s great painting because many have done it.
A shoe for me represents both the journey through life and it alsow is giving; shape and lines good to give image of the beauty of the human body, which they provide shelter and strength.
Then being a part of Sahajayoga has led me to a mystery that gives the shoe a new dimension, which is difficult to explain without the knowledge you get there.
Án titils, blönduð tækni, 57.2×61.7 cm. Sennilega 1980.
Without title, mixed technology, 57.2×61.7 cm. Probably 1980.
Skór í ferð sem engin skilur.Olía á striga. 55×45 cm. 2018 kr. 210,000
Shoes on a trip that no one understands. Oil on canvas. 55×45 cm. 2018 Ikr. 210000
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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