Myndir frá sýningu í Slökkvistöðinni i Gufunesi sem opnuð var á aðventunni 2022. Vegna ófærðar og kulda lauk henni fyrr en ætlað var. Slökkvistöðin er frábær sýningarsalur í bogadregnu ílöngu húsi, hvítmáluð í hólf og gólf. Hún er í umsjón ungra arkitekta og hönnuða sem eru með vinnustofu á staðnum.
Galleri Gangur mars / febr. 2022
Where the Boundaries Lie at Ásmundarsafn
August 31 - November 3, 2019
Helgi Gíslason has many works of art in the public domain of the capital area, across the country and abroad. The sculptures in this exhibition reflect outdoor pieces from different periods of his career. Gíslason has created works in a wide range of materials, highlighting the qualities of each and mastering their potential. Metal, wood, glass, plaster and textiles are all as clay in his hands. The works are strong in their form but their interpretation is fluid, alive and open. Time acts as a chisel remoulding the interpretation of the works so that each generation may approach them anew.
In his work, Gíslason deals with man and the human condition. His choice of material and form give way for impression and interpretation reflecting the emotional scale. The artist’s public works are divided, on the one hand, into commissioned works and monuments and, on the other hand, works that spring from the artist‘s mind entirely. The public works and his other pieces are closely related, all is the result of what has come before, growing out of the visual world where Gíslason dwells at any given time. In his art, he looks for where the boundaries lie. Both for his goals as an artist but also for his works.
Helgi Gíslason was born in Reykjavík in 1947. He studied at The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1965-69, attended an open art department at the same college in 1970-71 and Valand Academy in Gothenburg in 1971-76. Gíslason has public works in the following places: Memorial for Fishermen, 1988, in Höfn; Scienta sol mentis, 2005, in Breiðholt. Memorial for Thor Jensen and Margrét Þorbjörg Kristjánsdóttir, 1988, in Fríkirkjuvegur 11; Memorial for Albert Guðmundsson, 2009, in Laugardalur; At the Horizon, 2001, in Þorlákshöfn; Flying Mind, 2005, in Selfoss; Door to the National Bank of Iceland, 1986; Untitled, 1982, in Reykjavík Botanic Garden; Memorial for Kaldalón, 1978, in Reykjavík.
Ásmundarsafn Sigtún
105 Reykjavík
(+354) 411 6430
Opening hours
May–September 10–17
October–April 13–17
http://artmuseum.is/asmundarsafn
http://artmuseum.is/exhibitions/helgi-gislason-where-boundaries-lie
Persistence of Form at Agora Gallery
December 1 - December 22, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 2015, 6-8 pm
Helgi Gíslason’s works cover a broad range of techniques and materials from feathery pencil drawings on paper to sculptures that show the strength and delicacy of bronze and iron. His drawings balance light and darks, with traces of the artist’s hand animating even a black background. In his iron pieces, the artist creates networks of intersecting lines and curlicues that seem to defy gravity on one hand, while on the other they are joined to heavy pieces of metal that ground them and set up a sense of contrast that gives each work energy and movement.
That sense of juxtaposing opposites is also strongly prevalent in Gíslason’s bronze pieces. He calls bronze an “inherently paradoxical” material, one that is soft and flexible, yet also has a powerful weight and presence. His bronze sculptures take solid forms and twist them in unexpected directions or create gaps in their surfaces that allow air to peek through. “My vision is to work with my sculptures in twilight between dream and reality,” he says, and his strong technique brings that vision to life.
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/helgi_g%C3%ADslason.aspx
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ExhibitionAnnouncement/Persistence_12_1_2015.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ0dEWiUgig
http://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/blog/2015/12/08/brazen-images-making-bronze-sculptures/