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Stuck in a glacier crack 1977 / Jökulheima barren wasteland, Iceland 2019
In the summer of 2019 Gudrun went on a journey with her father Ólafur, to the old trails of the Tungnaá barren wasteland and Jökulheimar, there Gudrun took photographs for her Barren wasteland series. In this exhibition they merge photographs taken up to 70 years apart.
As the art historian Aldís Arnardóttir describes: “The forces of nature are unpredictable and nowhere are the opposites as great as in this barren wasteland. Where the white glacier's edge has retreated and wide areas of black sand and wasteland appear.
Gudrun looks to the past, stories of the land and personal memories, which provides her with the basis for the work of collage where the present lies harshly over the land.
As the art historian Aldís Arnardóttir describes: “The forces of nature are unpredictable and nowhere are the opposites as great as in this barren wasteland. Where the white glacier's edge has retreated and wide areas of black sand and wasteland appear.
Gudrun looks to the past, stories of the land and personal memories, which provides her with the basis for the work of collage where the present lies harshly over the land.
FACTSHEET:
Abmessungen : 29 cm x 80 cm x 2 cm (Height, Width, Depth)Gewicht : 1 kg
Jahr : 2020
Material : Metall, Kunststoff, Papier
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The installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“. A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance.
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Absent Core 2014
A reference to the way of Zen Buddhism, the temples inner world, the core. Installed in the center of Reykjavík on the 20th of June on a very wet day. In this monumental sculpture I reflect on the old Buddhist temple Daisen-in founded in 1509 in Kyoto, Japan. Its Zen gardens and its structural and functional traditions.
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Labyrinth, London 2015
Labyrinth Prince´s Gardens, South Kensington London
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The Mountain Series 2014 - 2018
The Mountain Series of recycled materials influenced Gudrun by working in her Reykjavík studio on the site of one of Iceland’s leading providers of environmental management services and clean energy. “Slow but constant changes in the immediate surroundings made the work happen naturally”, Gudrun stated.
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Wheel of progress 1992
Wheel of Progress the site specific sculpture by the Design Museum London. My first public sculpture.
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Changes 2010
Greenham Business Park, the former Royal Air Force World War Two airbase, Berkshire
This is Changes by the Icelandic sculptor Gudrun Nielsen, a monumental piece that has just been unveiled at Greenham Common where US bombers used to land – you get the references just by looking at it. Since the Greenham Common women saw off the last of the Right Stuff in 1988 the trees have returned along with the birds and the rest of the flora and fauna, and the military buildings have either been demolished or converted by the Greenham Common Trust which now owns it. Nielsen won a competition along with the late Michael Kenny, but that was 12 years ago and while Kenny’s large geometric form, Broken Symmetry, was unveiled almost immediately by Ringo Starr (a Kenny fan and local resident), Gudrun’s was a little tardy in taking off, as it were............... 17.11.2010 / Simon Tait's Diary http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/simon-taits-diary/45
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