SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969 – 2010

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Fragment, 1969-2010
32,3 x 23,9 cm (image 9,9 cm x 10,7 cm)  /  12.7 x 9.4 inches (image size is 3.9″ x 4.2″)
black and white photograph
signed, numbered
edition 70

Depicting circumstances with absurdist tweaks, his Situations as he calls them read as visual poems that explore the idiosyncrasies of human existence and tend toward the comical while retaining philosophical gravity. Gudmundsson uses himself as the subject of the Situations, but does not consider the works to be self-portraits but, rather, open-ended reflections on a more universal level.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Nutoen, 1997

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Nutoen, 1997
23,8 x 16,7 cm
offset, 2 volumes (16 pp. + 32 pp.), transparent sleeve
edition 500
published by Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 1997

This publication could beconsidered as half catalogue, half artist book. The picture on the front of volume I and the picture on the back of volume II form together one image of a sculpture installation ‘Disturb me’ (1997) of Sigurdur Gudmundsson. Both volumes come with a Dutch text by the artist about the making of the book and the works in his exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Untitled [horizon/zon], 1991

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SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, Untitled [horizon/zon], 1991
51 x 55 x 1 cm
edition 10
metal, steel stamped initials, year and number 9/10
published by the artist
p.o.r.

 

 

SIGURDUR GUDMUNDSSON, sketch for Untitled [horizon/sun], 1990
14 x 21 cm
ball point ink on back of invite

Originally Sigurdur Gudmundsson planned to have four horizontal lines and five vertical lines within the iron frame. He brought this idea back to two lines in both ways. In the left top corner a detail is drawn of the 1 x 1 cm bars.

Lesbian Dream Press, 1971

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Lesbian Dream Press, 1971
ca 24,5 x 17 cm
12 pp.,
paper collage, typed written texts on cover; recto and verso, book block of empty pages
edition unknown.
Published by Jón Gunnar Árnason, Reykjavik, Iceland
inv.SG 000-pr

 

This issue number 6 was handed out to Sigurdur Gudmundsson with machine types instructions on the back of the cover on how to participate with a contribution to the magazine. A handwritten text reads: Þessi bók er fyrir Sig Gu∂mundson (trans. ‘This book is for Sig Gudmundsson’).

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