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.
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 pursued in Iceland today. Self-reflexive engagement with the very notion of art is a common element in many of the works. The goal is to create a thought provoking exhibition and to generate a dialogue about the meaning of contemporary art. What unifies the exhibition is a unique collaborative approach to curating. All of the eight curators have advanced degrees in philosophy and address every aspect of the exhibition from philosophical standpoints.
“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 loss of it. Here the landscape often performs as metaphor for desire, alienation, magnificence and awe, tradition, irony and rebellion or achievement and deficit.
The exhibition is curated by Celina Lunsford, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, and Dr. Christiane Stahl, Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, in cooperation with Inga Lára Baldvinsdóttir, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík, and María Karen Sigurðardóttir, Museum for Photography, Reykjavík, as part of the arts and culture program of the Fabulous Iceland – Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011.
Participating artists: Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Icelandic Love Corporation, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Haraldur Jónsson, Bára Kristinsdóttir, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Hrafnkell Sigurdsson, Spessi, Pétur Thomsen and others.
More information at the publishers web page Kehrer Verlag
