NEWS
05. október 2009
As Iceland "celebrates" its first anniversary of THE BIG CRASH, HH opens an art exhibition titled "The Icelandic Expansion 2009" - a sarcastic title, since "The Icelandic Expansion" (Icelandic business-viking-raids on foreign shores) came to a shrieking halt one year ago. The show features a series of photographs shot last January in an unnamed country in southern Africa, showing a once invincible, now desperate Icelandic "business-viking" wandering around the poor third world suburbs, sleeping on the beach and begging in the street. Show is at The Contemporary Art Gallery, Skólavörðustígur 3, 101 Reykjavik, 7-20 October 2009.
01. október 2009
HH was invited to be among the speakers at the opening ceremony of the art festival in Bergen Norway last May, a black tie event held at the big and festive Grieghallen, with the king and queen of Norway up front. HH's speech focused on the current crisis in Iceland and the relations between the two countries. It was recorded by Norwegian Televison, NRK, and is now available on youtube.com.
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Best of Grim
Best of Grim (2004)
Living in Paris in 1995 Hallgrimur came up with his alter ego Grim; a humorous self-portrait with a Pinocchio’s nose and the teeth of a walrus. 1996 saw the first exhibition featuring the strange fellow (Tales of Grim) in the Saevar Karl Gallery in Reykjavik. More Tales of Grim were shown at gallery oneoone in Reykjavik in 1999, and in 2003 Hallgrimur had a show of bigger prints and paintings featuring his nosy brother at the Kopavogur Art Museum. Grim comic strips ran between 1998 and 2000 in the weekly magazine Fókus and for half of 2004 in the daily Frettabladid.
Best of Grim is a collection of most of the Grim works done between 1995 and 2003.
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