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NEWS PAGE
Recent news include a new festive of time-based art in Iceland and several exhibtions by Icelandic artists abroad.

From CIA.IS
New Grants from the Center for Icelandic Art
In the middle of March CIA.IS announced grants to nine artists out of 65 applications.

Homesick:
Center for Icelandic Art in New Exhibition Project
Homesick is a project with three other partners in Turkey (Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center), Israel (Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv) and Switzerland (venue to be decided).

Peace Column to Rise near Reykjavik
Yoko Ono Brings Peace to Videy
Yoko Ono's work is to be a tower, 10 to 12 metres high, made of transparent material and lit from within ...

ARTICLES

Sigrun Sandra Olafsdottir
Dandruff Space and Shroud: An Icelandic project space in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In an apartment on Driggs Avenue, a small project space is home to the idea of two Icelandic siblings

Jon Proppe
Nam June Paik Shocks Icelandic Audience ... in 1965
In May 1965, at the conclusion of a European concert tour, Nam-June Paik and Charlotte Moorman came to Reykjavik for a Fluxus performance the likes of which Iceland had never seen.

FEATURED ARTIST

Jon Proppe
Jon Oskar Hafsteinsson Crosses the Delaware
Already one of Iceland's best known painters, Jon Oskar took a new turn in his latest exhibition in Iceland.

 

 

Peace Column to Rise near Reykjavik

Yoko Ono Brings Peace to Videy

Serra's massive sculptural configuration of granite blocks on Videy Island, just off the coast of Reykjavik, is soon to have some competition as it has been announced that a work by Yoko Ono is to be erected there as well. The works would actually be on separate parts of the island, separated by a sandbank one must walk along form one to the ohter, so they should in no way interfere with each other when visitors come to see them.

Yoko Ono's work is to be a tower, 10 to 12 metres high, made of transparent material and lit from within (Reykjavik Energry is providing the engineering and electricity) and it will contain handwirtten notes, wishes of peace from people around the world who have visited Yoko's exhibitions. At a press conference in the Reykjavik Art Museum she explained how taken she had been with Iceland since she first came here to exhibit her work fourteen years ago and why she felt Iceland was the appropriate place to erect her column to broadcast its message of peace to the world. Every year, at the time of John Lennon's birthday in November, she will encourge people to come to Videy to join in.

 

 

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