Artist Tumi Magnússon gives a lecture on Friday, January 23 at 13 in the lecture hall in Laugarnes. Tumi plans to discuss recent installations and present some older works that show the development of his works through different media and his attitude towards art creation.
In his work, Tumi often focuses on simple and boring incidents in everyday life The works are based on simple logic and laws of nature embedded in these incidents and how they can be turned up to make them bearable and interesting The works also deal with how to use any situation as a tool to think about something completely different such as time, speed, sound and perception.
Tumi works with different media such as photographs, video, sound, and paintings that are important parts of his work He sees this as a way to maintain freshness, avoid achieving too much technical skill, and allow the potential of one medium to influence another medium His works possess playfulness that makes them accessible to the audience and surrounds them with a certain lightness.
The lecture will be in English.
Tumi Magnússon born in Iceland in 1957. he studied art at Iceland's School of Fine Arts and Crafts and AKI (Academie voor Beeldende Kunst) in the Netherlands He had his first solo exhibition in 1981. during his career as an artist, Tumi has exhibited widely, among others at the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík, at the Nordic Art Center in Helsinki, at the Cenre PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland, at the Biennial in Sao Paulo, Brazil, at MACMO, the Museum of Contemporary Art Montevideo in Uruguay and at the National Gallery of Art. Tumi was a professor at the Fine Arts Department of the Iceland University of the Arts from 1999 -2005 and at the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 2011.