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Like Sirens - Arts of Life

Like Sirens brings together a wide range of works all sharing the sound blue. Within this exhibition there are drawings of the future, paintings all zipped up, scattered thoughts, splattered thoughts, the feeling of floating, even actual floating, and endearing renderings of what means most. All works pose vastly different questions, but our blue veins …

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Every time I work, I love 

Outpouring of looking, seeing, longing to communicate.

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action of an opera

Musicians gather just before dawn

Serenade in hopes of winning a heart

No response

Exit Musicians

Approaching stranger

Hiding in anticipation

Friendly encounter offering assistance

one is driven by passion

The other driven by financial gain

Preparing to make contact with secret admirer

Note writing

Delivery

Check the house is safe of intruders

Singing lesson

Lovers talk in peace

Grip of a storm

Brave the weather

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Rule 7 The only rule is work.

– John Cage

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Socrates decides that a work of art isn’t an accurate picture of something.  It’s a performance of something, some inner demonic force. 

-Timothy Morton 

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This is what socrates says about art in the Ion - He compares art to a magnet in a string of magnets – from the muse – goddess of inspiration – to the artist – to the work – to the performer – to the audience – all magnets linked by some demonic force – we call this demonic force electromagnetism – but it is remarkably similar to Plato’s insight: the electromagnetic wave transmits information over a distance – a receiver amplifies the information into music coming through the speakers of the PA system so you can hear PM dawn.  In the age of ecological awareness we will come again to think of art as a demonic force – carrying information from the beyond – that is – from non-human entities such as global warming, wind water sunlight & radiation. 

-Timothy Morton

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Xylor Jane

I live in a world that is too fast.

Through painting I can relax and 

slow down.

My thoughts transform and my decisions are instinctual.

Choosing to work with an instinctual drive – I begin with a consideration of subject, pattern, color

It is a meditation.

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NYLO

Curatorial Role: Based on a vision and need to subjectively inquire into a certain subject.  It requires creative collaboration with artists on the subjects and nature of their practice  – within a conceptual framework and directing the contextualizing of works. 

http://www.nylo.is/en/

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NINA TRYGGVADOTTIR

Although Nina allowed herself to explore the diverse directions in abstract art, geometric and free of constraint, she always returned to the emphasis of colour & light on the surface of the painting – where texture, impasto and the pattern of the brush or knife determined the appearance and interplay of the coloured forms.  Her strength as an artist consisted in her mastery of contemporary technique handled with the understanding of the continuous evolution of the art of painting. 

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Magnús Sigurðarson

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Magnus sets out to break these assumptions down into their component atoms in a quest to find some kind of nucleus — while at the same time asking himself and us, questions about the internal and external reality of the individual, and his/her attitude to a higher power.  

Magnus Sigurosson (b. 1966) (Miami) Re. Iceland

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