Magnús Helgason
Magnús Helgason (f. 1977) vakti fyrst athygli sem tilraunakenndur kvikmyndagerðarmaður og stop-motion sem vann sjónræn verk sem sýnd voru á tónleikum Kitchen Motors, Jóhanni Jóhannssyni, Apparat Organ Quartet og Kira Kira. Smám saman fór áhugi hans að hníga að málverkinu. Í fyrstu verkum sínum frá 2003-2008 byrjaði Helgason að fást við texta sem myndefni.
Magnús Helgason (b. 1977) first gained recognition as an experimental filmmaker and a stop-motion artist doing live visual performances to the music of artists associated with collective Kitchen Motors such as Jóhann Jóhannsson, Apparat Organ Quartet or Kira Kira. Gradually his interest started to gravitate towards painting. In his early works from 2003- 2008 Helgason begun dealing with text as a motif.
Short Bio
Magnús Helgason is a visual artist based in Akureyri. He graduated from AKI, Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst Enschede, Holland in 2001, from multimedia department.
Helgason first gained recognition as an experimental filmmaker and a stop-motion artist doing live visual performances to the music of artists associated with collective Kitchen Motors such as Jóhann Jóhannsson, Apparat Organ Quartet or Kira Kira. Gradually his interest started to gravitate towards painting and has he been working within the field of visual art ever since.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
National Gallery of Iceland, Amy´s Donation, 2019.
Akureyri Art Museum, Ideas, 2018-2019.
Center for Contemporary Art, Hjalteyri, Be Sides, 2018.
Gallery Artist (Gallerí Listamenn), Handtakið mig ég er fagurkeri (Arrest me, I have good taste), 2018.
Heavy metal, wire and magnet
H: 21 B: 3 L: 33 cm
20 + 2 AP
Published by MULTIS
2019
Um verkið
Verkið er hluti tilraunastarfsemi Magnúsar sem hefur undanfarið unnið með kröftug segulstál þar sem hann hefur skapað litla járnskúlptúra þar sem þyngdaraflinu virðist ögrað.
About the work
The object is a part of that artistic experiment that Helgason has been working with extremely powerful magnets to create playful mini sculptures with levitating metal objects.
