The Museum Abteiberg presents Birgir Andrésson: THE YEAR IN ICELANDIC COLORS AND A FEW 90 MINUTES IN BLACK AND WHITE. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in a German museum.
The exhibition includes two very distinctive groups of works: the typographical presentation of the terms “spring day”, “summer evening”, “autumn night” and “winter morning” along with around fifty titles from black-and-white film classics presented as canvas images in a standardized format (60 × 60 cm) - all in Icelandic colors.
With a wry sense of humor, Birgir Andrésson's works open up access to deeper levels of meaning. With playful ease, they raise questions that, in their subtlety, distance themselves further and further from the laconic works that provided the impetus.
Birgir Andrésson *1955 in Westman Islands, Iceland. He studied at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, from 1973–1977 and at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands in 1978–1979. In 1995, he was Icelands contribution to the Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Reykjavik.
