Like so many of Finnur Arnar ́s video pieces Journey uses double images to underscore a conceptual whole. Fragments, shown in a loop, feature a walking man dragging …
Read More →Finnur Arnar Finnur Arnar sýnir hér nokkur verk sem geta hvert og eitt staðið ein og lifað sínu lífi, en eiga þó í innilegu og nánu samtali. Viðfangsefni sín sækir …
Read More →National Heroes When the snow melts after a long and cold winter, heroes grow in the highest mountains. Photographs of flowers that grew in the West Fjords moorland, spring 2012.
Read More →Fisherman’s Widow, Fisherman Tvö myndbönd sem sýnd eru hlið við hlið sýna sama sjónarhorn og eru tekin upp samtímis. Á þeim er þó sá reginmunur að annað er tekið beint upp …
Read More →Tvö myndbönd sem sýnd eru hlið við hlið sýna sama sjónarhorn og eru tekin upp samtímis. Á þeim er þó sá reginmunur að annað er tekið beint upp í himininn af …
Read More →Seven photos of fish, taken with a Polaroid camera; the heads of the same seven fish in jars filled with formaldehyde; the invisible presence of their bodies locked in a …
Read More →The man in the work revolves slowly counterclockwise while the light travels from right to the left in twenty minutes.
Read More →From the beginning of his career Finnur Arnar Arnarson has been particularly drawn to generic circumstances where art is displayed in a volatile state, scarcely visible at the narrow margin …
Read More →Two video segments, ten minutes each, side by side where the same fishing village in The West fjords is shown. The ocean is in the front and the village huddles in …
Read More →On the left a young girl is sleeping but on the right a recording from Látrabjarg taken from the height of 500 m straight down into the ocean.
Read More →A twin video made of two ten minute video segments side by side, showing the last twenty minutes in the life of a single, stranded cod. The spectator sees simultaneously the …
Read More →Two ten minute video segments side by side showing the death of a cod. The work shows twenty minutes in ten of the cod dying.
Read More →Icelandic vikings wrote down their wounds. The men are members of the viking society Rimmugýgur. Also exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.
Read More →Photograph of an old woman, five statues of the members of the punk group PPPönk. Members of the Ponkgroup and the old women wrote down there future dreems
Read More →On the Visa note you could read the national anthem of Iceland
Read More →The picture is of Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson how is the main spokesman of capitalism in Iceland. The button shows the notes of The Internationale
Read More →A group exhibition in Reykjavík. Jón Sigurdsson is the undisputed hero of Iceland. His visions freed Iceland from the Danish crown that lead to the country’s independence in 1944. But …
Read More →An installation in an old prison in Reykjavík. The piece shows us the everyday of the prisoner in cell 4. “Finnur Arnar’s cell was not typical in comparison to the …
Read More →An installation in the Cultural Center of Grindavík. This installation tells a story about an electrician. He is just minding his job. On the ladder he has attached a note, stating: “Went …
Read More →Eight governmental salary slips (80cmx60cm) Five office workes CV’s Three “be back soon” works. Droped upstairs, droped by the exhibition, droped to fetch a lightbulb.
Read More →Family car My car and my family had been living together for a long time when I put it up for sale in a group show of young artists at …
Read More →I did this installation with a friend of mine, the composer Thorkell Atlason. The pictures show a kitchen in an old defunct house. In one of them, a young …
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