Events

Art Exhibition - Kjarval

Kjarval – Insights: Warrior Maidens and Ships of Fancy

Category: Art Exhibition

Location: Kjarvalsstaðir Art Museum, Flókagata 24, 105 Reykjavík

Hours: 10:00-17:00

Price: Free of charge

Description: The drawings and sketches in the Reykjavík Art Museum’s Kjarval collection number in the thousands. In recent months Reykjavík Art Museum has been making these works available in digital form to facilitate research on Kjarval’s oeuvre and a closer examination of specific subjects in his work. Kjarval’s thought world abounds in diverse beings but this exhibition singles out warrior maidens and boats, or ships of fancy that seem to traverse the gap between human and hidden worlds. Warrior maidens and boats are frequent subjects in Kjarval’s small drawings and sketches, some of which are here exhibited for the first time; the exhibition also illustrates how these subjects resurface in his paintings.

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