Guided tour by the Art Philosopher Aðalheiður Lilja Guðmundsdóttir of the exhibition Sculpture/Sculpture in Gerðarsafn.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome while space allows. The guided tour is part of the Culture on Wednesdays event series sponsored by Kópavogsbær’s Art and Culture Council.
More about the exhibition: The exhibition series Sculpture/Sculpture is now being held for the fifth time in Gerðarsafn, where the aim is to explore the status of sculptural art in our time. The exhibition series explores the development of three-dimensional visual art with references to the pioneering work of Gerðar Helgadóttir (1928-1975) within Icelandic sculpture. The title refers to the exhibition Sculpture/sculpture/sculpture, a group exhibition of 29 artists held in Kjarvalsstaðir in 1994, which gave an important overview of the sculptural art of that time.
This fifth exhibition in a row here at Gerðarsafn has a different format than before, as it seeks to take a position on sculpture today with a joint exhibition of ten artists. There is not a single common denominator among the artists participating in the exhibition, but in the dialogue of their works you can find intriguing references to the status of sculpture as an art medium, its potential and its relationship with our contemporary times. Sculpture is, in the traditional sense, a formal art medium. A three-dimensional work of art, unlike a two-dimensional painting. The position of the sculpture as a three-dimensional work of art was not the main content of the works anyway. Experiments were then made to stretch the possibilities of the material, to bring out different textures, softness, expressions and finesse in substantial works made of stone, clay or bronze. With the development of sculptural art, artists moved from considering the possibilities within the material to exploring the relationship of the sculpture to the space itself.
The exhibition Sculpture/Sculpture is therefore a certain journey through the world of sculpture — an expedition between works that reflects how contemporary sculpture encompasses different movements within the art whose core is experimentation. The artists’ constant experiments with sculpture as a tool inspire us to reflect and think. They test the limits of the medium in terms of size, technology, space, attitude and our role as viewers. At the same time, an interactive platform is created to reflect on the contemporary world, reality and the environment through figurative or abstract representation.
