Mér var boðið nýlega að setja verk inn á Facebook hóp sem heitir: „ Allskonar heimilislist “. Þegar maður er ungur og vitlaus er maður ekki mikið að hugsa um markaðs mál eða kynningu, það var ekki kennt neitt um það á þeim tíma í listaskólunum sem ég sótti, en ég veit ekki hvernig það er núna. Ég vona að ég hafi aldrei reynt að telja fólki trú um að myndirnar mínar væru góður fjárfestingarkostur (sem gæti verið.) enda held ég að fjárfesting í listum sé jafnvel ennþá flóknari en aðrir fjárfestinga kostir og örugglega mikið um allskonar sjónhverfingar í þeim bransa. Það er vissulega gaman að eiga verk á söfnum og á opinberum stöðum en það er sambandið við áhorfandan sem þetta snýst samt allt um og ekki síður ánægjulegt að eiga verk inn á heimilum og fá fólk í heimsókn í vinnustofuna sem ég er með heima hjá mér núna,en eins og Breska skáldið John Keats orðaði það: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” (Fagur hlutur er er eilíf ánæja.)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Recently I was invited to post a work on a Facebook group called: „Alls konar heimilislist“.(“All kinds of home art”.) In the other hand, when you are young and crazy, you do not think much about marketing or promotion, it was not taught at the time in the art schools I attended, but I do not know things work now. I hope I have never tried to make people believe that my pantings as good investment option (thei migth be), as I think investing in the arts is even more complicated than other investment options and certainly a lot of all kinds of illusions in that business. It is certainly nice to have works in museums and public places, but it is the relationship with the viewer that it is all about and no less pleasing to have works in homes and have people visit my current home studio, but as the British poet John Keats put it: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever “
Úr vinnustofunni minni heima.
From my studio at home.
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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