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Saturday 16 April at 4 p.m. the exhibition Disruption will open at Ásmundarsafn Reykjavík Art Museum. On view will be the works of the artists Elín Hansdóttir (b. 1980) and Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982).
Saturday 16 April at 4 p.m. the exhibition Disruption will open at Ásmundarsafn. On view will be the works of the artists Elín Hansdóttir (b. 1980) and Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982). Elín takes on Ásmundur´s artworks, searching for new viewpoints. It often falls to artists to challenge old and stagnant attitudes.
Ásmundur spoke of trying to make people “aware that they are not just mindless beasts.” According to Elín, art should “cut the ground from beneath your feet and make you re-evaluate your rigid ideas.” Elín and Ásmundur work with perspective in different ways; he uses his material to capture the form, while she redefines the space. The contrast between Elín´s recent work and Ásmundur´s heritage opens up a new world for the viewer. Their generations are wildly incompatible which creates interesting tension, although they also have some powerful attributes in common.
Curator is Dorothée Kirch.