Georg Gudni
Georg Gu冒ni (1961鈥�2011) played a prominent role in the local art scene in the eighties as one of the first contemporary Icelandic landscape painters. Instead of making human existence the subject of his work, as was the trend at that time, he painted pure nature, thus bringing new impulses to the genre of landscape painting and to the medium of painting itself.
His landscape paintings follow a geometrical construction, while at the same time they remain open to personal experiences. Nature, as he shows it, is simplified and to a certain extent also objectified, but his works do not show illusion. Rather, they have a strong atmospheric effect and are recognizable by their formal, polished simplicity.
Georg Gu冒ni鈥檚 works have been exhibited widely, in solo shows as well as in group exhibitions, in the Nordic countries and Western Europe, and also in the United States, South America and China. They can be found in most major museums in Iceland, as well as numerous museums abroad, and also in private collections.
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Georg Gu冒ni (1961鈥�2011) played a prominent role in the local art scene in the eighties as one of the first contemporary Icelandic landscape painters. Instead of making human existence the subject of his work, as was the trend at that time, he painted pure nature, thus bringing new impulses to the genre of landscape painting and to the medium of painting itself.
His landscape paintings follow a geometrical construction, while at the same time they remain open to personal experiences. Nature, as he shows it, is simplified and to a certain extent also objectified, but his works do not show illusion. Rather, they have a strong atmospheric effect and are recognizable by their formal, polished simplicity.
Georg Gu冒ni鈥檚 works have been exhibited widely, in solo shows as well as in group exhibitions, in the Nordic countries and Western Europe, and also in the United States, South America and China. They can be found in most major museums in Iceland, as well as numerous museums abroad, and also in private collections.
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