SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Event, 2000 [poster]

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Event, 2000
59,2 x 41,9 cm
offset poster
published by Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
inv.SG 399

 

Sigurdur Gudmundsson once said: ‘I feel most at home in a country where I don’t speak the language, because then I have to use other senses to understand what the other means or says. I have to use sign language to make me understandable.’ Maybe this attitude has helped him to come to this renowned work ‘Event’ he made in 1975 as one of the first works in his photo series “Situations”.

Sigurdur Gudmundsson heeft ooit eens gezegd: “Ik voel mij het meeste thuis in een land waarvan ik de taal niet spreek, want dan moet ik andere zintuigen gebruiken om te begrijpen wat de ander bedoelt of zegt. Ik moet gebarentaal toepassen om mij begrijpbaar te maken.” Misschien heeft deze houding hem geholpen om het vermaarde werk ‘Event’ in 1975 te maken dat het begin werd van zijn reeks unieke fotowerken ‘Situaties’.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Arm Nederland, 2004 [kleine versie]

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Arm Nederland, 2004
26 x 38,5 x 1,5 cm
enamel plate
signed, numbered
edition 20

De Irakoorlog was een door de Verenigde Staten en het Verenigd Koninkrijk in maart 2003 ingezette oorlog tegen en in Irak, waarbij ook andere landen binnen het Navo-bondgenootschap troepen leverden.

In 2003 The Netherlands was one of the Western countries that joined the Allied Forces called the “Coalition of the Willing” to fight against the regime of Saddam Hussein. This urged Sigurdur Gudmundsson to make a series of enamel plaques commenting the countries involved and who caused the killing of the dictator and fall of the regime.

Space 251 Nord – Investigations, 1985 [catalogue]

Space 251 Nord – Investigations, 1985 [Place Saint Lambert, Liège, Belgium]
40,4 x 28 cm
oversized catalogue, ca 50 black & white ill.,
good condition with slightly discoloring on cover, book block separated from spine due to aged Lümbeck binding
€ 165,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.Spa 000-pr

 

This catalogue is featuring 38 artists participating in Investigations at Space 251 Nord in Liège: Jacques Charlier, Leo Copers, Michel François, Anne Veronica Janssens, Bernd Lohaus, Luigi Ontani, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Guillaume Bijl, Klaus Jung, Michel Moffarts, Panamarenko, Dan Van Severen, a.o.
Also poster available.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, three books, 1993-2010

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, three books, 1993-2010
Tabúlarasa [Tabula Rasa], 1993
20 x 12,5 cm
signed
Ósýnilega konan [The Invisible Woman], 2000
21,5 x 14,2 cm
(not signed)
Dýrin í Saigon [The Animals in Saigon], 2010
20 x 12 cm
signed
Icelandic language
published by Mal go Mánning, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

Next to being a visual artist Sigurdur Gudmundsson writes novels since 1993. Insiders in Iceland call the content of his books innovative and a remarkable addition to the Icelandic literature.

In 2016 his fourth book will be published, at a certain point also in English his new publisher Crymogea states.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Ofrím, 2014

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Ofrím, 2014
15,5 x 12 cm
offset, 20 pp., HC,
edition 150,
signed, numbered
published by Silver Press, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

The first edition of the book ‘Ofrím’ (English translation: ‘Over-rhyme’) was issued with a subtitle ‘ljód eftir Sigurd Gudmundsson’. This was skipped in te second edition. Here the cover is missing.

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, ‘Ofrím – ljód eftir Sigurd Gudmundsson’, 1972 
16 x 14,9 cm
offset, book block without cover, 10 pp.
edition 300
numbered (not here)
published by Silver Press, Reykjavik / Amsterdam