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Sigurður Guðjónsson
Perpetual Motion (detail), 2022
© Sigurður Guðjónsson Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary
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Scopes of Inner Transit |
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| 29 August 2024 – 12 January 2025 |
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| Opening: Thursday 29 August 7pm |
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Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4010 Linz
T +43 (0)732-7720 522 00
www.ooekultur.at
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Sigurður Guðjónsson
Perpetual Motion, 2022
Installationsansicht: Icelandic Pavilion,
59 International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022
Foto: Ugo Carmeni
Courtesy of Sigurður Guðjónsson & BERG Contemporary
© Sigurður Guðjónsson 2024 |
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| Under the title Scopes of Inner Transit, the Francisco Carolinum is presenting the first solo exhibition in Austria devoted to the Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson. Guðjónsson achieved international recognition when he represented Iceland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 with his installation Perpetual Motion (curated by Mónica Bello, CERN Geneva). In Linz, Perpetual Motion will be shown together with three other recent works by Guðjónsson that likewise explore the fabric of space and time by evoking direct sensations. |
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Sigurður Guðjónsson
Oscillation, 2022
Installationsansicht: Reykjavík Art Museum 2022
Foto: Vigfus Birgisson
Courtesy of Sigurður Guðjónsson & BERG Contemporary
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| Alternating between film and installation, Guðjónsson’s works assume hybrid forms that focus viewers’ attention in complex ways. A central role is played by correspondences that are generated between vision and acoustics. Acoustic phenomena in space evoke a direct sensory impression and thus have a high affective potential. In contrast, observing filmed images tends to create distance – in part due to the dominance of the sense of sight in contemporary popular culture. |
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Sigurður Guðjónsson
Trajectories, 2014
Installationsansicht: Reykjavík Art Museum 2014
Foto: Petur Thomsen
Courtesy of Sigurður Guðjónsson & Anna Thorvaldsdottir |
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| In Guðjónsson’s works, visual and auditory experiences are conjoined as one. The senses seem to communicate amongst one another, to translate stimuli for each other. Sculptural qualities become audible, sounds and rhythms visible. The fundamental principle of representation at work here is movement as a manifestation of life, of thought, of taking shape. Guðjónsson shows movement as the beginning of composition, with animation as its consequence. This animation manifests itself externally and finds its equivalent internally – in Scopes of Inner Transit.s |
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Sigurður Guðjónsson
Fuser (Videostill), 2017
Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary
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