At sea and in the country side.

Gunnlaugur Scheving

9. mars – 2. júní 2013

LÁ Art Museum worked on this exhibition in collaboration with the National Gallery of Iceland and the Hornafjörður Art Museum. The purpose of the exhibition is to make art accessible to people in Árnessýsla county and Hornarfjörður area, and especially school groups. Employees of the National Gallery of Iceland have prepared educational material that accompanies the exhibition and appeals equally to children and adults.

Gunnlaugur Scheving’s work is a good example of the work that artists often put in preparation and research before the final project comes to light. Visitors rarely get to see this long process from idea to painting, but in this exhibition you can see how ideas are born in sketchbooks, develop in sketches, watercolors and drawings and then get a final form of painting.

Collaborative projects of, LÁ Art Museum, Hornafjörður Art Museum and the National Gallery of Iceland of Art received grants from the Southern Iceland Cultural Council in 2011. Next year another exhibition will be from the National Gallery of Iceland and the focus will then be on contemporary art.

This is the first exhibition of three that the LÁ Art Museum has done in collaboration with the National Gallery of Iceland and Hornafjörður Art Museum. The exhibitions are intended to introduce certain periods in Icelandic visual arts and projects for guests, often school groups, will also be available to deal with and have fun with. Gunnlaugur Scheving’s work is on display at the exhibition, where he deals with seafaring and human life in the countryside, where it was installed last year. In Hveragerði, the exhibition is somewhat larger, as the exhibitions allow it to put up some of Gunnlaugur’s largest works owned by the National Gallery of Iceland, from where all the works come.

The selection of works in the exhibition is based on the idea that the works reflect a certain spirit and ideology but not individual artists or their development.

We live and move in an ever-changing world where we are constantly responding to the information and influences we have from the environment and especially to artists. Culture and cultural heritage are part of our daily lives, in continuous development but also in creation.