- The art exhibition place Garður Udhus Küche
was established in May this year. This exhibition place
is situated in three countries; in a garden at Selfoss,
Iceland, in a shed in Lejre, Denmark, and in a kitchen in
Hannover, Germany. Three icelandic artists take care of
and curate exhibitions in their resident exhibition
spaces.
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- The purpose of this new exhibition place is to bring
to the artists the opportunity of presenting their work
outside the arena of the conventional exhibition space
for arts. The artist has to confront unusual and
different spaces at time as he attempts to create the
exhibition.
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- The exhibition of The Icelandic Love Corporation was
the first one in GUK following their sparkling
spectacular opening performance in May 1999.
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- On September 26th a new exhibition opened in GUK
where the artist Pétur Örn Friðriksson is
showing his work.
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- Pétur Örn is lead by the pattern of the
exhibition spaces and is going to build his exhibition
during the three month opening period as the scientist
exploring beyond any borders in any aspect possible. He
will build one installation for each place, a total of
three, and each can be described principally as three
elements; machine, flag and silhouettes.
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- The machine is supposed to be the main element,
central unit, the sculpture, the utility made for
purpose. The actual purpose of the machines is unforeseen
and at no point predicted, anything is possible at start.
As soon as parts become finished, mailed and or installed
they become permanently part of the machines, blocking
the escape of return as well as forcing the next step of
the design, evolution. During the various steps in
building the machines they will become recognizable in
the manner they evolve through unforeseen growth or
mutations.
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- The flags are different. They are finished elements
from the start of the process and attached to the
machines. Each machine has a set of three local flags;
national flag, union flag and militair flag. The reason
for the flags is a common habit of human beings of
attaching flags to anything traveling far into space. The
purpose is not the responsibility of the artist.
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- The silhouettes are foreseen as they are cut by
international standards. The set is four silhouettes for
each exhibition place. Silhouette shooting started out in
Mexico when people where drunk and started to shoot the
household animals for pleasure. Silhouette shooting is
today an official sport competition practiced by totally
sober shooters following strict security rules. The
remains of the game is four rows of steel plate animals
falling down in invisible blood trails, pain and agony as
they receive the bullet. The silhouettes are monuments to
the shift of opinion of the civilization towards the
environment, today it's rare to see ashtrays emptied
during red traffic light.
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- The exhibition will be open during the Sundays
October 3rd , November 7th and December 5th between 16:00
and 18:00, local time. Additionally the exhibition is
open at request. The exhibition ends onDecember
19th.
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- Pétur Örn can be contacted in tel: +354
863-0319
- GUK diary of Pétur's work:
http://www.mmedia.is/~show/it/petur/guk
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- See new work for the internet done by Pétur:
http://internettrash.com/users/markmid
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