HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Touch, 2009
ca 8 x 8 cm
eye ball of glass, red ribbon with text, carton box
Christmas ball, in original silver coloured box with small booklet
signed in print on object
limited edition rare
€ 268,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace EU registered mail
The glasswork ‘Touch’ (2009) of Hreinn Fridfinnsson could be characterized as a breakable object that has been touched by the artist’s paint hand in the colours blue, green, yellow, violet and red. It reads as a symbolic act of all the touches done by billions of individuals, a universal human urge that will last until eternity. Fundamental colours that refer to white light and to elementary colours emphasise this continuity of human condition to relate to nature, and the way we look at it and how behave in that same nature being part of it. During millennia many touches have been made and in that sense during the ages to come with touch after touch nothing will change this human drive. KvG
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Impromptu (leftovers of the day from the studio of the artist), 1997
ca 35 x 20 x 1 cm
magnet, metal, 4 parts
unique series with various sizes and material
certificate
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Fragment of Remembrance, 1990
ca 48 x 72 cm / ca 19 x 28 inches (sizes may differ from each other)
iron, silver foiled cristals, 13 parts in wooden box with sticker
edition 12
signed, numbered on certificate
published by Galerie van Gelder Editions, Amsterdam rare
€ 6.500,- plus € 32,- Track & Trace registered mail
Margin Scheme
‘Fragment of Remembrance’ refers to memories of his youth and is partly made of a rolled up iron sheep fence used in the countryside of Iceland to keep sheep together close to the farm, when they are not taken to the mountains for grazing. Born in 1943 in Baer Dölum, Iceland, Hreinn Fridfinnsson employs media that are remarkably varied in scale and substance, from photography, drawings and tracings to presentations and installations of sound, texts and ready-mades. As in this edition Fridfinnnsson often presents found objects with which he interferes as little as possible, creating new works that investigate ideas of the self and of time. He has said that: ‘Notions of time are always compelling. The feeling and the interest in the essence of time is serious, but my dealing with time is not knowledge-based; it is more exploratory and feeling-based.’
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, An Aquarelle of the surface of the lake “Thingvallavatn” Painted with water from the surface of the lake plus color, 1973-’74
76 x 62,5 cm
aquarelle, pencil on paper in original frame with silver leaf
each hand made and unique copy depicts the contour of the lake (“Thingvallavatn”) filled in with blue aquarelle paint
edition 10
extremely rare
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, invitation card In-Out Center [hand written], 1972
6,5 x 9,8 cm / 7,2 x 10,4 cm
pencil on card / envelope
signed
edition ca 15
published by and handed out by the artist
extremely rare
inv.HF 688
Hreinn Fridfinnsson preferred to avoid to draw attention to his exhibitions. Yet is was important to get some friends and colleagues to his opening. Instead of having a printed invitation card for his solo show in In-Out Center he handed out a completely handwritten invite with name. It could quite well be that this card is the only one that still exists. As this hand made card represents quite well the attitude of Hreinn Fridfinnsson it ought to be considered a piece in itself, actually.
Foto: K. van Gelder
Foto: K. van Gelder