Lifebreathe in the nostrils

Helgi Fridjonsson (ISL)
A sea of ​​silver at the entrance to the exhibition embraces the exhibition visitor and creates a resonant space for poetic watercolors and small oil paintings by Icelandic Helgi Fridjonsson. His pictorial world contains recognizable elements from nature and myth and is at the same time pure poetry. Often with a dreamy atmosphere. A mixed mythological/real universe as two sides of reality – as in some of Asger Jorn's work, which has also inspired Helgi Fridjonsson. He exhibited at the then Silkeborg Art Museum in 1993 and at the Silkeborg Bad Art Center in 2018 together with several colleagues under the title Playful Dialogue. The current exhibition title is connected to a childhood memory of helping newborn lambs to breathe by removing mucus from their nostrils with his tongue. In the first weeks of the exhibition period, the artist will be available in an open workshop.