Finnbogi Pétursson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson and Ivar Valgardsson

Born: Pétursson: 1959; Sigurðsson: 1963; Valgardsson: 1954

Hometown: Pétursson: Reykjavik, Iceland; Sigurí°sson: Reykjavik, Iceland; Valgardsson: Akranes, Iceland

Lives and Works: Reykjavik, Iceland

Education: Pétursson:
Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Holland, 1985
The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Iceland, 1983

Sigurí°sson:
MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, England, 2002
Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1990
Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjaví­k, Iceland, 1987

Valgardsson:
Stichting De Vrije Academie Den Haag Holland, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1980
The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1975

Finnbogi Pétursson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson and Ivar Valgardsson Bio

About The Artist

In 2011, i8 Gallery in Reykjavik presented the exhibition Three Parts Whole with new work by Icelandic artists Finnbogi Pétursson, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, and ívar Valgardsson. The show was curated by New York-based art critic and curator Gergory Volk who reveled in the diversity of the artworks and the sensibilities of the three artists. Volk says, "These distinct sensibilities cohere in an exhibition full of correspondences, some obvious, and others much more subtle. Related colors, shapes, textures, and motion (whether actual or implicit) course through the exhibition. Compact and contained works suggest distances and immensities: the sky, horizon lines, land formation and convulsion, the ceaseless rhythm of waves. Works dealing in physicality, tactility, and optical power are also marvelously evocative, and able to induce rapt contemplation."

Finnbogi Pétursson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson and Ivar Valgardsson Gallery Art

Galleries

i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland