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Niko Luoma

Convex Equation #1, 2010

C-print mounted on acrylic

170 x 140 cm

Edition 2/5

Inspired by mathematics and geometry, Niko Luoma is an artist who uses traces of light to create time-based images on film negatives rather than making a typical drawing.

Mikko Rikala

6 Movement in 6 Hours, 2018

Carbon paper drawing with a stone, framed

32 x 24 cm (each)

Mikko Rikala is an artist who also focuses heavily on using our natural environment for his art, whether nature is the subject or the tool. His work is a reflection that merges mystical and philosophical thoughts through the empirical process of observation, as he explores the relativity of time, speed, distance, presence, and absence.

Jussi Nahkuri

Holding Your Hand, 2022

Archival pigment print on rectangular aluminum tubing

50 x 50 x 5 cm

Edition of 5

Jussi Nahkuri is an artist working with time conceptually rather than strictly documenting the world around him. His approach is inspired by the theories of French philosopher Henri Bergson, who is majorly known for his elaborations regarding the significance of immediate experience and intuition in order to understand time.

Kristján Gudmundsson

Drawing nr. 19, 2005

Pencil Lead 0,7mm HB on Aluminium Plate

12 x 24 cm

Edition of 15 + 3 AP

Kristján Gudmundsson is the third exhibiting Icelandic artist and he combines minimalism with conceptual art. In a number of works over the years, he took a special interest in the basic equation of a drawing – namely graphite or pencil on paper.

Finnbogi Pétursson

Nodes, 2019

Mixed Media

220 x 15 x 14 cm

The best way to describe Icelandic artist Finnbogi Pétursson’s process of working is to imagine what the center of the Earth might sound like: He creates a bridge between science and nature, examining the very essence of sound and silence through installations that utilize one substance to investigate the properties of another.

Ragna Róbertdóttir

Saltscape 29th April 2020, 2020

Sea salt and red hot spring mud

30 x 30 cm

Saltscape 23rd April 2020, 2020

Sea salt and red hot spring mud

30 x 30 cm

Saltscape 22nd April 2020, 2020

black lava salt

30 x 30 cm

Saltscape 21st May 2020, 2020

black lava salt

30 x 30 cm

Ragna Róbertsdóttir works with the concept of drawing in a unique method that touches upon the scientific. Her artworks project an overall tactile sensibility to the natural elements which come from her homeland, Iceland.

Diogo Pimentão

Documented (belong #14), 2018

paper and graphite

128 x 113 x 38 cm

In Diogo Pimentão’s work, everything is a potential drawing. This would include his performances, gestures, movements, or sound. Throughout his career, he has been attempting to stretch the conventions of what a drawing is by introducing the action into other dimensions.

Józef Robakowski

Po linii, 1977

photography

38,5 x 27 cm

On the Line, 1976

single-channel video, 3:00 min

Idle Line, 1992

single-channel video, 3:00 min

If Pimentão conducts experiments with the medium of drawing, Józef Robakowski experiments with video. Rooted in the Polish avant-garde, Robakowski has used the line to explore the synchronicity of sound and image in his photography, films, and videos.