GROUP EXHIBITION 

No 4 AROUND  

is an exhibition serie which is intended to promote contemporary art in all parts of Iceland.

In the summer of 2022, the exhibition was held in West coast and Strandir. 


KETILSSON´S WORK

TIME - MEMORY

Life in the capital was characterised by hustle and bustle. However, for a young boy from Reykjavík, experiencing life on a farm in the deep valley of Strandir Coast – West Fjords, during each summer between 1964-1970, offered a much slower pace.

But time did not stand still.

An awareness of Time arose in relation to household chores, sunrise, daylight, the lambing season, sheep shearing and nature´s clockwork.

The days and chores at Gestsstaðir in Tungusveit were habitual. After milking, the cattle were driven into a valley and other chores were done, one after the other. All tasks had to be completed.

The farmhouse was a simple, small, white concrete building with a green corrugated iron roof.

In addition to the farmer family, an elderly blind man lived there.

The old man had a rule to walk clockwise around the house, mornings and evenings, for his health reasons. On his hands he wore thick woolen mittens. Due to his blindness, he had to lean against the walls of the house as support while walking.

He repeated this routine every day of the week, for months and years. Over time, he left his mark on the white walls of the house, a brown-coloured line from the mittens, at chest height, became darker and clearer. For the boy, this line became very interesting and he waited excitedly every spring, on his way to the countryside, to see what the line looked like this year and whether an indentation would emerge on the wall.

TIME - MEMORY, 2022, PAINTED WOOD, 120x125x145 cm. 

TIME - MEMORY, 2022, PAINTED WOOD, 120x125x145 cm.

TIME - MEMORY, 2022, (detail)  PAINTED WOOD, 120x125x145 cm.

TIME - MEMORY, 2022, PAINTED WOOD, 120x125x145 cm.

GROUP EXHIBITION 

Rolling Snowball 

An International Art exhibition which presents works by contemporary artists. 

Rolling Snowball, is located in Djúpivogur town in east coast, Iceland. The exhibition brings together artists working across the full spectrum of disciplines, including drawing, photography, painting, sculpture and video.


DIMENSIONS

Guðjón Ketilsson's installation Dimensions is the first part of a larger series of works he began working on in 2021. The work here consists of a wooden sculpture and five oilpastel drawings. In the work three-dimensional shapes and two-dimensional shapes are joined. The sculpture is composed of pieces of wood, scrap wood from the making of other works in Ketilsson's studio, who has used wood extensively in his work for many years, among other materials. When assembling the pieces of wood, Ketilsson builds a form that can be read as a house, i.e. the form carries fairly generic characteristics of houses; a rectangular shape with windows and a roof. When composing the house shape, Ketilsson intuitively works from a sense of aesthetics and balance, but is furthermore interested in how two-dimensional drawings of all sides of the house shape will turn out. He is curious about the transition between the dimensions. The work is a speculation about the translation between dimensions and scales, and our ability to convey the shapes or textures of two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects.  



DIMENSIONS, 2021, EXHIBITION VIEW,

DIMENSIONS, 2021, EXHIBITION VIEW

DIMENSIONS, 2021, DETAIL, WOOD, METAL

DIMENSIONS, (detail) WOOD AND METAL, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, NORTH - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS,(detail) NORTH - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, WEST - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, (detail) WEST - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, EAST - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, (detail) EAST - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, SOUTH - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, (detail) SOUTH - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, DOWN - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

DIMENSIONS, (detail) DOWN - 2021, CARBON- AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 72x62 cm.

Using Format