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May 19, 2008
Artistic trip through East Iceland
About 100 Icelandic and foreign guests took a Trip through East Iceland on Saturday, with artist Björn Roth as their guide. That trip was a cooperative project of three art institutions in East Iceland: Skaftfell in Seydisfjordur, Sláturhús in Egilsstadir and the Arts Centre in Eidar, and was prepared specifically for the Reykjavík Arts Festival 2008. The program includes installations, events, happenings, dance and musical performance. Alcoa Fjardaal is one of the sponsors of the Trip.
Skaftfell in Seydisfjordur's Old Town will be the site, for example, of extensive installations by Christof Büchel, works by the threesome Skyr Lee Bob and the PONI performing arts group, which includes graphic artist Gudni Gunnarsson, choreographer and dancer Erna Ómarsdóttir and musician Lieven Dousselaere. Skaftfell will also present "Painting by Numbers" by Seydisfjordur artist Pétur Kristjánsson, who uses full-sized heavy equipment, such as steam shovels, tractors and trucks. “Á Seydi 2008”, the annual Seydisfjordur Arts Festival, was also opened Saturday.
The Arts Centre in Eidar will exhibit works by graphics artists Hrafnkell Sigurdsson and Lennart Alvés, who both work with many different techniques. The exhibitions by Hrafnkell's Crew and Function Ground won the Icelandic Visual Arts Award last year.
Both Hrafnkell and Lennart Alvés have lived in Eidar in the period leading up to the exhibitions and are working on their projects there. In a meadow at Eidar Alvés has put up an electric tower made of aluminium, and on the walls of the gymnasium he is exhibiting aluminium works and photographs of electric towers that were taken at night.
Graphic artist Paul Harfleet will have an exhibition in Sláturhúsid in Egilsstadir; he mixes autobiographical research and political ideas about psychological geography to create challenging comments on modern civil society. Sara Björnsdóttir creates works that are at once direct, powerful, noisy and mischievous, but also quiet, beautiful and poetic, and musician Matti Saarinen explores worlds as classical as experimental music.
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