Árið 2020 hefur verið hjá mér eins og flestum dálítið sérstakt, fyrri hluta ársins var ég að undirbúa yfirlitssýningu á grafík verkum eftir mig sýningin frestaðist og hefur formleg opnun ekki ennþá farið framm en sýningin er opin þegar þetta er ritað og stendur til 31 janúar og er í Listasafni Reykjanesbæjar, en ég fór að að vinna ný grafíkverk eftir að vera búin að skoða allan grafík ferilin.
Ég fékk óvænt boð um að sýna í fjósinu á Erpstöðum í Dalasýslu og ákvað ég að mála verk á vegg sem blasti við kúnum þegar þær voru að eta sín hey.
Seinnihluti ársins fór ég svo að vinna olíumálverk sem ég ætla að sýna fljótlega í Reykjavík.
Annars hefur árið verið fínt við ferðuðustum mikið innanlands og gengum um fjöll og firnindi, Ég málaði húsið að utan með hjálp góðra manna.
The year 2020 has been a bit special for me like most people, in the first half of the year I was preparing a retrospective exhibition of my graphic works. I started working on new graphics after reviewing my entire graphics career in Listasafni Reykjanesbæjar.
I received an unexpected invitation to have an exhibition in the barn at Erpstaðir in Dalasýsla and I decided to paint a piece on big wall that was visible to the cows when they were eating their hay.
In the latter part of the year, I started working on oil paintings, which I will soon be exhibiting in Reykjavík.
The year has been fine, we traveled a lot in Iceland and walked around mountains and fjords, I painted my house on the outside with the help of good people.
Hér er ég að mála eitt af jöllunum sem ég gekk á í sumar. Painting one of the mountain I walked on this summer.
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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