Nordatlantens Brygge; EN HILSEN OVER HAVET – postkort fra nordatlantiske kunstnere.
Þegar ég var ungur var ísland mun einangraðra en það er núna og færri ferðamenn komu hingað og ferðalög voru ekki daglegt brauð við vorum að sumuleyti í svipaði stöðu og Ente Tot og félagar hans handan járntjalds. Þá var svo kallað Mail art töluvert í gangi og tók ég oft þátt í þannig sýningum, ég hef ekki verið virkur í því seinni árin en fæ þó stundum boð á slíkar sýningar, þessi sýning er þó öðruvísi hún er í viðurkendum sýningarsal og einskona viðbrögð við sérsökum aðstæðum.
Nordatlantens Brygge; A Greeting Over the Sea – postcards from North Atlantic artists.
When I was young, Iceland was much more isolated than it is now and ongly few tourists came here and we did not travel as we did later. Mail Art was then in progress and I often participated in such exhibitions, I have not been active in the last few years, but sometimes receive quest from abroad for sending mail art, this show is different from old days as the gallery is well-known in Copenhagen, but the exhibition is good reaction to special circumstances.
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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