TRÈS LOIN À L’EST, IL Y A L’OUEST / 3* If Caspar David Friedrich had spent time in Iceland, I wonder if he would have populated his landscapes with little men dressed in red with matching helmets, or with the Dinky-toy sized Caterpillar tractors that you find in Pétur Thomsen’s photos. Why Caspar David? Perhaps […]
Pétur Thomsen participates in the Backlight Photo Festival in Tampere Finland. He exposes images from the series Imported Landscape. Here you can find more info regarding the festival. While in Finland Pétur Thomsen tutored a workshop at the TAMK university in Tampere.
The last days of the exhibition Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy at the Reykjavík Art Museum. Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy offers an unusual overview of contemporary Icelandic art. Selected by eight curators, the exhibition is representative of the breadth and diversity of styles and artistic media […]
“Frontiers of Another Nature – Pictures from Iceland” is a unique selection of emerging and established Icelandic photo-media artists.These artists repeatedly draw from the landscape and environment in their work. The catalog and exhibition will introduce ambiguous environments in which the photographers themselves investigate and build visual narratives around the expanse of land, or the […]