Press release 27th of May 2021. 4 Summer exhibitions in LÁ Art Museum open on 5th of June Let me walk in the moorland barefoot in a dress with seventeen singing plovers following me. Elísabet Jökulsdóttir The LÁ Art Museum summer shows – RÓSKA, Turbulence, Takeover & White – interface on many levels. The turbulence flows between galleries; from one time to another, one work to another, from the art to the visitors. RÓSKA – Impact and Inspiration Curator: Ástríður Magnúsdóttir It is a great honour to have the opportunity to present an exhibition of Róska’s art, and to communicate her campaigning spirit and visual world, which was beautiful, multi-layered, and provocative. Róska was an artist who had a powerful impact on her time and on later generations of artists; and many dimensions of her work have yet to be discovered and explored. She was unafraid of a cross-media approach in her art, and the same applies to the contemporary artists in Turbulence and Takeover. Their subjects relate, both overtly and more subtly, to the elements which were paramount to Róska in her art: the human, nature, feminism, the mystical, reiteration, lyrical simplicity, justice and humour. For more information please contact: Ástríður Magnúsdóttur t: 691 1960
[email protected] Turbulence Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir has worked in a range of media, for instance with provocative paintings made using the age-old technique of egg-tempera and gold leaf on wood. In the exhibition Turbulence she shows pictures sewn on canvas, which are powerful and at the same time sensitive. The Icelandic Love Corporation, which was founded in 1996 and now comprises artists Eirún Sigurðardóttir and Jóní Jónsdóttir, has from the outset attracted great attention for works made in all possible media, to serve the concept in question.