Finissage: desire paths
Anna Hrund Másdóttir’s solo show desire paths will soon come to an end. We invite you to join us for a finissage next Saturday on the 27th of April at 4 pm where the artist will be present welcoming guests as we celebrate the last moments of this beautiful exhibition.
“Probably the first question I brought into the empty room in The Living Art Museum was: How might colors behave in this space? Floating, squashed against a wall, cascading down windows or crawling up walls... I had bought wafer paper from Allt í köku. The paper is edible, used in cake decorations, crisp to the touch but softens and shrinks when moistened. I tried wetting a few pink pieces and sticking them together. That formed a pink sheet or mass of sorts that was also very light. It was then that I began to think about creating a mass of color, materializing colors. A heavy orange juxtaposed with a light pink, for example. A pink that hangs suspended above you, an orange hillside. Colors that envelop or even overwhelm. Colors that affect your sense of space, enlarging, diminishing, compressing.” — Anna Hrund, from the exhibition journal.
Anna Hrund Másdóttir studied art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Mountain School of Art and completed her MFA program from the California Institute of the Arts in the spring of 2016. Anna has been actively involved in the art scene in Iceland, participated in various projects and exhibited in different venues, such as Reykjavík Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Harbinger and Gallery Port. In addition to working as an artist, she is a member of Kling & Bang.
Anna Hrund Másdóttir’s solo show desire paths will soon come to an end. We invite you to join us for a finissage next Saturday on the 27th of April at 4 pm where the artist will be present welcoming guests as we celebrate the last moments of this beautiful exhibition.
“Probably the first question I brought into the empty room in The Living Art Museum was: How might colors behave in this space? Floating, squashed against a wall, cascading down windows or crawling up walls... I had bought wafer paper from Allt í köku. The paper is edible, used in cake decorations, crisp to the touch but softens and shrinks when moistened. I tried wetting a few pink pieces and sticking them together. That formed a pink sheet or mass of sorts that was also very light. It was then that I began to think about creating a mass of color, materializing colors. A heavy orange juxtaposed with a light pink, for example. A pink that hangs suspended above you, an orange hillside. Colors that envelop or even overwhelm. Colors that affect your sense of space, enlarging, diminishing, compressing.” — Anna Hrund, from the exhibition journal.
Anna Hrund Másdóttir studied art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Mountain School of Art and completed her MFA program from the California Institute of the Arts in the spring of 2016. Anna has been actively involved in the art scene in Iceland, participated in various projects and exhibited in different venues, such as Reykjavík Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Harbinger and Gallery Port. In addition to working as an artist, she is a member of Kling & Bang.
