Fluorescent
Sigurður Guðjónsson
BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
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- Title
- Fluorescent
- Gallery
- BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 28 min 50 s
- Format & Technical
4K, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
The material dynamics of light and time and reflected in the work, as the artist focuses on extreme close-ups of the processes that come to light within a fluorescent tube. We see the rotating pulse of a circular image, as described by curator Mónica Bello:
“A new aesthetic environment; one governed and generated by the excitations and interplay between electricity, the noble gas argon, and the fine coating of phosphorous on the inside of the glass tube. High voltages ionize the gas and bring the radiation into the visible spectrum and into the realm where the artist can bring them to the attention of the viewer. The perspective of the images prohibits our immediate connection with their source, instead suggesting dust clouds floating in space or atmospheric anomalies.”
Stills
Sigurður Guðjónsson is best known for his striking time-based media works that investigate man-made machinery and technical relics, in conjunction with their natural elements. Powerfully combining moving imagery and sound, the artist’s complex, multi-layered works create a striking experience for the viewer.
His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik Art Museum, Scandinavia House in New York, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, Arario Gallery in Beijing, Liverpool Biennial in the UK, Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art in Norway, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and Bergen Kunsthall in Norway.
He often collaborates with musical composers, resulting in intricate work, allowing the visual compositions to enchantingly merge with the musical ones in a single rhythmic and tonal whole. Sigurður Guðjónsson currently represents Iceland at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022.
Last update 2022
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- Address
- Klapparstígur 16, Smiðjustígur 10, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Phone
- +354 562 0001
- gallery@bergcontemporary.is
- Website
- bergcontemporary.is
BERG Contemporary aims to provide a diversified forum for contemporary art by representing emerging and established artists, and by seeking the resonant tone of the present through a programme of innovative exhibitions. BERG Contemporary is located in an old glass factory in Reykjavík, Iceland.