![]() I’ve got a toolbox full of tools to combat the symptoms of cabin fever, which I’m seeing a lot of folks trying to navigate right now as a side effect of self-quarantine. Just in time to hunker down to weather COVID-19!īut I’m ready. ![]() Living in a remote cabin in the woods, you can bet your sweet tush that cabin fever strikes me every year! I’ve noticed, it typically gets me for two weeks at the end of February/beginning of March, which means I’ve just popped out on the other side of this year’s case. With COVID-19 shaking up our world, we’re more cooped up than normal and it’s leaving us feeling….in a funk, lonely, bored, irritable, uninspired, stagnant, and frazzled, not to mention anxious.Īnyone feeling any of those ways? *raising my hand We also need SAFE ways to manage “cabin fever” right now. Always eye-catching, provocative and compelling, viewing these works will give the visitor the slightest peak into the world as seen through the eyes of Iceland’s most famous artist.There are lots of wonderful *and very common* cures for cabin fever! I’m sure you know a few of them: get lost in a book, get outside, pick up a new hobby, eat healthier, take a bath, get some exercise, have folks over.īut right now, we need specific, actionable, and mindful ways to cure our cabin fever, rather than solely general catchall ideas. What can really be said about Erró that hasn’t been said already? The pop artist is arguably the darling of Iceland’s art history, and this exhibition focuses primarily on Erró’s travels, which played an important role in the creation of his works over the years. Shot entirely on the island of Tobago–incidentally, the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe’s setting–the film explores the overlap between exploration and colonisation. Furthermore, his film work Drawing For Bellevue Estate will be shown. Here, his photos cover his travels around Trinidad, Zimbabwe, Grenada, the United States, and Scandinavia, capturing moments of personal significance to the artist. Photography, all too overlooked as a medium of fine art as well as commercial and journalistic, is the centerpiece of this exhibition from Swedish-based artist Santiago Mostyn. So to avoid confusion, whenever you choose to visit, just know it’s the Kwade showing at i8 Grandi. In keeping with that, even the name of the exhibition itself can be expected to change over the course of the year. Installation, sculpture, and work on paper–this exhibition has it all, all revolving (if you’ll excuse the pun) around the fluid nature of time and space. And it looks like they’ve chosen well, selecting Polish artist Alicja Kwade to be the star of the new space. Definitely worth a look.įamed gallery i8 proudly announces a new location at Grandi, with a focus on single-artist, year-long exhibitions. These pieces seek to explore “the idea of function and compromise around art objects, as well as the gallery space”, which is certainly well worth exploring in a town where some of the grander spaces are reserved for Iceland’s more established galleries and museums, while the young upstarts have to make do with whatever space they can manage to scrape together. Go see what he means by this.ĭefinitely an exhibition for the more tactile-minded, Turning features an installation of sculptures made from oak. ![]() “In Akureyri everything is a little bit more OK than in other places,” Ragnar says. This particular exhibition adds a splash of snark right in the title: what kind of “underworld” can a town of just over 18,000 people possibly have? Expect this work to be more specific to the Icelandic character than some of his more internationally accessible works, as it explores the national spirit and the artist’s place within it. Ragnar is one of Iceland’s more internationally renowned living artists, having most recently made a splash with his touring video installation, Death Is Elsewhere. Ragnar Kjartansson: The Underworld Of Akureyri Here’s what March and beyond have in store for you. Lucky for you, there’s a bunch of exhibitions going on this month and beyond that are definitely worth checking out, and appeal to seasoned gallery crawlers and art newcomers alike. Likewise, if you’d delayed coming to Iceland for nigh two years now due to the border rules, you no longer have that excuse. All pandemic restrictions have now been lifted, both domestically and at the border, so if you’ve grown weary of yet another event being held on Zoom and are itching to mingle with the public again, your time has come.
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