Sigurdur Gudmundsson

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Born: 1942

Hometown: Reykjavik, Iceland

Lives and Works: Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Xiamen, China

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Education: De Ateliers (Ateliers '63), Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1971
Academie '63, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1964
Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, 1963

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About The Artist

Guided by an existential interest in the unknown, Sigurdur Gudmundsson generates work of abundant wit and verve that questions the way that vernacular culture and art relates to nature. Depicting everyday circumstances with absurdist tweaks, his Situations read as visual poems that explore the idiosyncrasies of human existence and tend toward the comical while retaining philosophical gravity. Gudmundsson uses himself as the subject of the Situations, but does not consider the works to be self-portraits but, rather, open-ended reflections that invite the viewer to ponder alongside the artist. Turning to sculpture in recent years, Gudmundsson has focused on creating works that retain his characteristic humor and are dominated by elegance, simplicity, and technical perfection.

In 1978, with 19 other artists, Gudmundsson co-founded Reykjavik's Living Art Museum, which is dedicated to experimental and innovative contemporary visual art. His artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at the 37th Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Iceland, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and his public commissions have been displayed in Rotterdam, Groningen, and The Hague.

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Galleries

i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway