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Ásmundarsafn and Yearning for Space

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Visiting Iceland earlier in the year, I caught Yearning for Space at Ásmundarsafn in the few days before the exhibition closed. Yearning for Space is the name of an Ásmundur Sveinsson sculpture from 1967, and it indexes the time when the Space Race was at its peak: set off by the successful orbiting of Sputnik 1 in October 1957, after the Soviet...

The Einar Jónsson Sculpture Garden

Art
Born at Galtafell farm in southern Iceland, Einar Jónsson studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, settling in the Danish capital from 1904 following a couple of years spent mostly in Rome, with visits also to Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Florence. At the time, around the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland possessed little...

Daily Visual 06.02.16: KAWS at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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The first UK museum exhibition by the American artist KAWS opened today at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The Longside Gallery plays host to KAWS' vibrant acrylic canvases and smaller sculptures in fibreglass and wood, while dotted across the park's 500 acres are six monumental sculptures in KAWS' trademark style, cartoon figures as tall as ten feet, with crossed eyes and doleful postures. KAWS...