Through the VC Projects podcast platform, “Conversations About Art” Spotify we explore Sigurbjörnsson’s art, studio practice, influences, and inspired theory related to art and humanity. The artist is currently working on a series of paintings related to the heart.
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Interviews with Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: Flesh and Mind, Body Consciousness in Painting.
“Inside the Studio with the Heart Paintings"
In this episode, my guest, Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson, and I continue our talk about body consciousness in painting, by visiting his studio outside Reykjavik. We move through the space studying the process of the six-painting series related to the heart.
Visit the artist's website: http://www.bjarnisig.com
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Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: Flesh and Mind, Body Consciousness in Painting
In this episode, Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson and I, continue our discussion on body consciousness in painting with a focus on the flesh and mind. I open the discussion by reading a passage from an essay the artist wrote years ago quoting Merleau Ponty, “It’s not the mind that paints it is the body.”
Visit the artist's website: http://www.bjarnisig.com
Talk 1
Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: Aesthetics and Body Consciousness in Painting
In this interview, Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson and I talk about aesthetics and body consciousness in painting.
I also learn about the inspiration behind his mysterious oil and water plexiglass paintings. Sigurbjörnsson says that he prefers to live within the process of his works over thinking about them. On growing up in Iceland, "I would say it's like an open wound or the skin of the earth, in a sense. Where you have all kinds of elemental forces very open here in Iceland." On embodiment and abstraction, I don't think he is painting the landscape around him. The artist says, "It has nothing to do with that, I sometimes have a problem with landscape paintings, but still [chuckles] I do-- it's the feeling of how you are-- you are the landscape that you are within."
Visit the artist's website: http://www.bjarnisig.com
oil and water on plexglass
Inside the artist’s studio