Gudrun Nielsen

FORMÁLI

Á sýningunni eru ljósmyndir og módel af verkum sem flest hafa verið sett upp á erlendri grund á árunum 1992 til 2012.  Einnig sýnir Guðrún hluta af nýju verki sem kemur beint af sýningu alþjóðlegra skúlptúrlistamanna í Svíþjóð. Það er skúlptúr, vídeo og h-ljóðverk, “Borrowed View 231” sem tilheyrir Japönsku tehúsa seríunni frá 2005-. Verkið samanstendur af tvöhundruðþrjátíu og einum geometrískum skúlptúr, jafnmörgum textuðum vatnslitateikningum og plexígleri.  Heiti verksins er tilvitnun í Japanska hugtakið „borrowed landscape“ eða fjarlægt landslag...fengið að láni með notkun forms og lita.

Samnefnt ljóð Guðrúnar, Borrowed View 231 endurspeglar upplifun við verkið, nálgun og hreyfingu manneskjunar í tengslum við manngert formið. Hver vatnslitateikning er einstök, ein ljóðlína endurtekin mismikið á mismunandi hátt.  Lýsa má verkinu sem fljótandi landslagi þar sem ferningslaga glugga-veggjaðir píramídar sitja í röðum í dal plexíglersins sem lætur eilítið undan þunga verksins, þar sem það hangir í augnhæð meðalmanns. Í fjarska hljómar bjalla Daitoku-ji hofsins í Kyoto sem tengist endurspeglun hreyfinga vatnslitamyndanna á vegg sýningarrýmisins, fjarlægt landslag fengið að láni.

Guðrún lauk námi úr skúlptúrdeild Myndlista- og handíðaskóla Íslands árið 1989. Hún stundaði framhaldsnám í London við Chelsea College of Art and Design 1990-1992 síðan lauk hún MA gráðu í Art in Architecture frá University of East London 1995.  Guðrún bjó um árbil í Englandi og hefur tekið þátt í um 60 sýningum aðallega í Englandi en einnig víða um Evrópu þar af 5 á Íslandi. Í gegnum árin hefur Guðrún tekið þátt í fjölmörgum samkeppnum, hún hefur fengið tilnefningar og unnið til fyrstu verðlauna í Englandi sem og í alþjóðlegari skúlptúrsamkeppni. Hún var valin fulltrúi Englands af Royal Society of British Sculptors á alþjóða vettvangi 1998.  Árið 2001 var Guðrún tilnefnd og kosin Fellow innan RBS. Verk Guðrúnar sem oft eru umhverfisteng og í yfirstærðum er að finna í einka og almannarými utan sem innanhúss aðallega í Englandi ber þar helst að nefna Changes 24 metra verk í Greenham Business Park. Módel þess verks má finna á sýningu Guðrúnar sem stendur frá 6. til 26.júní

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FOREWORD

Gudrun exhibits a model and a selection of photographs of sculptures that have been installed overseas between 1992 and 2012. In addition Gudrun exhibits a part of a new work that has just arived back from an exhibition of international sculptors in Edsvik Konsthall, Sweden. This is “Borrowed View 231” a part of the Japanese Teahouse series 2005-. It is a mixture of sculpture, watercolours, video and sound.

The work consists of 231 repeated sculptural forms, displayed in straight lines on three perspex forms suspended from the ceiling. Under each sculptural form are equally as many coloured drawings each different from the next one. The installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“. A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance. On each coloured drawing is one line from the poem Borrowed View 231 by Gudrun repeated differently on each drawing twohundredandthirtyone times  A vital part of the installation is the projection of the drawings on the gallery wall, constant changes of scenery "the borrowed landscape".

“The idea for the sculpture Borrowed View 231 started by sketching last autumn at the University of Huddersfield, England. There the necessary accurate measurement working drawing followed, for the purpose of making the sculpture. It progressed into a field of the same structure, where my focus was on the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape” When working on computer drawings, one is able to view the structure in so many different ways, like from the worms eye view and it was from there that the idea of a floating field of the repeated structure came to me. A decision had to be made about the scale and material. That could be gained by using perspex as the transparent material and wood for the solid structures. I mostly work on over life size so with this sculpture I had to scale it down. I decided on an indoor work with all of its 231 forms included. In this work each form is repeated 7 x 33 times = 231 pieces in all. Each individual structure is a 9 stepped square pyramid, counting the ground/platform and where the top level of it will be at an eye-level of an average man. On one end of the pyramids top/platform is a wall, blocking the view. At the wall´s bottom is a low opening across, there the spectator is offered the borrowed view through 7 x 33 rectangular windows.

There are other kind of drawings connected to the installation, drawings that pleases my mind, with the freedom of expression colour, text and lines. They are drawings related to the sculpture by form and name the bellsound an echo from the Daitoku-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. The source of my inspiration”