NANNA BÜCHERT - AIR (Photo) PIA RAKEL SVERRISDÓTTIR - WATER (Glass, drawing) THÓRUNN BÁRA BJØRNSDÓTTIR - EARTH (Painting) MARIETTA BONNET - FIRE (Pastel) search to interprete their respective themes in their different media and techniques
The exhibition 'The four elements':
Nature breathes, the sea waves and everything vibrates and trembles.
The theory of the 4 classic elements - earth, fire, water and air - can be traced back to Empedocles, but their origin is probably rather mythological. Three artists with Icelandic relations and one German, deliver their own interpretation of an element, illustrated by the forms, materials and beings the elements contain or produce
Thorunn Bára Bjørnsdóttir (painting) has illustrated the development of flora in the volcanic soil of an island, closely related to the fire in Marietta Bonnet's volcano pictures (pastel), while Pia Rakel Sverrisdóttir (drawing, glass) expresses ice and water in the glass and Nanna Bisp Büchert (photo) explore the theme air
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The exhibition 'The four elements':
Nature breathes, the sea waves and everything vibrates and trembles.
The theory of the 4 classic elements - earth, fire, water and air - can be traced back to Empedocles, but their origin is probably rather mythological. Three artists with Icelandic relations and one German, deliver their own interpretation of an element, illustrated by the forms, materials and beings the elements contain or produce
Thorunn Bára Bjørnsdóttir (painting) has illustrated the development of flora in the volcanic soil of an island, closely related to the fire in Marietta Bonnet's volcano pictures (pastel), while Pia Rakel Sverrisdóttir (drawing, glass) expresses ice and water in the glass and Nanna Bisp Büchert (photo) explore the theme air
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