The Living Art Museum<\/strong> will move their exhibition space to the newly renovated Marshall House in Grandi, alongside Kling and Bang Gallery and \u00d3lafur El\u00edasson. The new space in the harbour will open with a retrospective exhibition echoing \u00d3lafur\u00b4s practice and contribution as one from the young and radical generation of contemporary artists who surfaced during the seventies. It will include documentation of his performance work and other substantial material that had not been shared with the public eye during his lifetime and pull together works from The National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, along with those in private collection from friends, family, and collectors.<\/p>\n A photograph from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s 1978 Rainbow performance in S\u00daM Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=“Text“ background_layout=“light“ text_orientation=“left“ use_border_color=“off“ border_color=“#ffffff“ border_style=“solid“]<\/p>\n \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon was born in 1951 and raised in Austur-Me\u00f0alholtum, South Iceland and in Hl\u00ed\u00f0ar \u2013 105 Reykjav\u00edk. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Craft, now Iceland Academy of the Arts, from 1971-74 and subsequently in Haarlem, Holland, where he graduated from Atalier \u00b463 in 1976. \u00d3lafur was an extremely prolific and productive artist during the seventies and played a key role in shaping the priorities of the icelandic art scene at that time. He was amongst the last artists to be accepted into the S\u00daM Gallery movement, a founding member of the Living Art Museum, and the first indications of the museum were stored in his studio on Mj\u00f6lnisholt prior to when the board of N\u00fdl\u00f3 received the facilities at Vatnsst\u00edgur 3b in 1980.<\/p>\n \u201cThe gift from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s studio, marks a turning point for N\u00fdl\u00f3 and is also an important addition to art history. The archive is the first of its kind to be accepted by the museum, where light is cast upon the life and practice of the artist in such a way. With the family\u00b4s donation, video documentation from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s Rainbow<\/strong> performance – which was performed in S\u00daM Gallery in 1978 and had been lost for many years, has now surfaced. The recording shows the artist breaking hanging glass plates that have been painted the colours of the rainbow, with his head – the broken glass swinging back and forth alongside it.<\/p>\n This contribution also strengthens N\u00fdl\u00f3\u00b4s research into collecting, preserving and archiving performance art, and underlines the immeasurable value of the insight provided through otherwise unseen material gathered over time in the artist\u00b4s studio; conceptual-work, the process and evolution of artworks, and specific focuses, streams and remains of certain periods.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00d3lafur passed away on December 4th, 2014. On 10th September he would have celebrated his 65th birthday and the museum would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge his contribution to shaping the scene of Icelandic art.<\/p>\n On behalf of the Living Art Museum, [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Living Art Museum is endowed with a large selection of material from the studio of artist \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon (1951 – 2014).\u00a0Family of the late \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon, have gifted the Living Art Museum a large portion of material, spanning two decades from around 1970 – 1990, gathered from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s art studio. Amongst this donation is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" The Living Art Museum is endowed with a large selection of material from the studio of artist \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon (1951 - 2014).\u00a0<\/strong>Family of the late \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon,<\/strong> have gifted the Living Art Museum a large portion of material, spanning two decades from around 1970 - 1990, gathered from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s art studio. Amongst this donation is part of the artist\u00b4s personal library, his film collection, negatives, slides, photographs, sketches, VHS recordings performance documentation, exhibition catalogues and invitations, artistic research and experimentation, as well as proposals for works in the form of drawings, snapshots and conceptualizations that had never been fully realized.<\/p> The Living Art Museum<\/strong> will move their exhibition space to the newly renovated Marshall House in Grandi, alongside Kling and Bang Gallery and \u00d3lafur El\u00edasson. The new space in the harbour will open with a retrospective exhibition echoing \u00d3lafur\u00b4s practice and contribution as one from the young and radical generation of contemporary artists who surfaced during the seventies. It will include documentation of his performance work and other substantial material that had not been shared with the public eye during his lifetime and pull together works from The National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, along with those in private collection from friends, family, and collectors.<\/p> Curators \u00deorger\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir,<\/strong> Director of the Living Art Museum and Collection Manager Becky Forsythe<\/strong> have titled the exhibition Rolling Line<\/em><\/strong>, the namesake to a photographic work \u00d3lafur completed in 1975. The artist himself is seen somersaulting through nature within Rolling Line<\/em>, and the work references the possibility of a continuous line always ending in a circle. This reflection is well related to the core of the exhibition, which aims to shed new light on the process and period of the artist, from 1971 when he started as a student in The Icelandic College of Art and Craft, until the early eighties when \u00d3lafur began to turn away from one of his main mediums, the photograph.<\/p> \u00d3lafur L\u00e1russon was born in 1951 and raised in Austur-Me\u00f0alholtum, South Iceland and in Hl\u00ed\u00f0ar \u2013 105 Reykjav\u00edk. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Craft, now Iceland Academy of the Arts, from 1971-74 and subsequently in Haarlem, Holland, where he graduated from Atalier \u00b463 in 1976. \u00d3lafur was an extremely prolific and productive artist during the seventies and played a key role in shaping the priorities of the icelandic art scene at that time. He was amongst the last artists to be accepted into the S\u00daM Gallery movement, a founding member of the Living Art Museum, and the first indications of the museum were stored in his studio on Mj\u00f6lnisholt prior to when the board of N\u00fdl\u00f3 received the facilities at Vatnsst\u00edgur 3b in 1980.<\/p> \u201cThe gift from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s studio, marks a turning point for N\u00fdl\u00f3 and is also an important addition to art history. The archive is the first of its kind to be accepted by the museum, where light is cast upon the life and practice of the artist in such a way. With Sigr\u00fan\u00b4s donation, video documentation from \u00d3lafur\u00b4s Rainbow<\/strong> performance - which was performed in S\u00daM Gallery in 1978 and had been lost for many years, has now surfaced. The recording shows the artist breaking hanging glass plates that have been painted the colours of the rainbow, with his head - the broken glass swinging back and forth alongside it.<\/p> This contribution also strengthens N\u00fdl\u00f3\u00b4s research into collecting, preserving and archiving performance art, and underlines the immeasurable value of the insight provided through otherwise unseen material gathered over time in the artist\u00b4s studio; conceptual-work, the process and evolution of artworks, and specific focuses, streams and remains of certain periods.\u201d<\/p> \u00d3lafur passed away on December 4th, 2014. On 10th September he would have celebrated his 65th birthday and the museum would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge his contribution to shaping the scene of Icelandic art.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artzine-in-english"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"skissubok\"](\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/skissubok.jpg\")
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Curators \u00deorger\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir,<\/strong> Director of the Living Art Museum and Collection Manager Becky Forsythe<\/strong> have titled the exhibition Rolling Line<\/em><\/strong>, the namesake to a photographic work \u00d3lafur completed in 1975. The artist himself is seen somersaulting through nature within Rolling Line<\/em>, and the work references the possibility of a continuous line always ending in a circle. This reflection is well related to the core of the exhibition, which aims to shed new light on the process and period of the artist, from 1971 when he started as a student in The Icelandic College of Art and Craft, until the early eighties when \u00d3lafur began to turn away from one of his main mediums, the photograph.<\/p>\n![\"oli2\"](\"http:\/\/artzine.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/oli2.jpg\")
Rolling Line, 1975<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>\u00deorger\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir and Becky Forsythe<\/em><\/p>\n