Opening Reception: Thursday, July 12th, 5 - 7 PM Opnun fimmtudaginn 12. júlí kl. 17-19
i8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Egill Sæbjörnsson. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Sæbjörnsson’s latest work continues his experimentation with elements of sculpture, animation and sound interacting in a playful and inventive way. The exhibition is comprised of three installations where the communication between sculptural objects and computer-animated image projections create self-generative works.
The works further investigate the power of the art object as species; a concept that Sæbjörnsson has addressed in his previous works and performances. According to the artist, “the pieces are independent creatures with their own agency,” an idea that also relates to his continued research into the potential of music and musical instruments and the investigation and development of what he calls the “pseudo instrument”.
Coinciding with the exhibition is the publication of the book, Stones According to Egill Sæbjörnsson and published by Revolver Publishing / Künstlerhaus Bremen. The book, written in conjunction with the exhibition, The Egg or the Hen, Us or Them at Künstlerhaus Bremen, poses such questions as Are worms artists? Are minerals artists? If one stone falls from a mountain top and hits another one on the head, is that communication?
Egill Sæbjörnsson’s (b. 1973) exhibitions and performances include: Frankfurter Kunstverein; Reykjavik Art Museum; Kunstverien Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin; Sassa Trulzsch, Berlin and Johann König, Berlin.
Sæbjörnsson, together with Marcia Moraes, recently collaborated with Robert Wilson on On the Beach, 2012, at the Baryshnikov Center, New York (inspired by Einstein on the Beach, 1976). For further information please contact i8 Gallery by tel.:+354 551 3666 or by email: info(@)i8.is
