Iceland 21st century
Haukur Dór
Reykjavík 1940
Haukur Dor is an Icelandic artist who studied at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Later he studied at the Visual Arts Center in Maryland, USA.
He held his first solo art exhibition in 1963 and has since held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in many countries.
He has worked on pottery and art in Iceland, Denmark, Spain and the USA. Today he devotes himself entirely to painting.
Hauks Dor's work can be found in the Icelandic Art Gallery, Reykjavik Art Gallery, and the Icelandic Design Museum, among several other art institutions and private collections.
1940
Erro
Ólafsvík 19.07.1932
Erro, real name Guðmundur Guðmundsson, is a contemporary Icelandic painter.
Erro studied painting at the Reykjavik and Oslo Art Academies between 1952 and 1954. He then moved to Italy, where he studied mosaic art in Florence and Ravenna until 1958.
Erro participated in the Venice Biennale in 1986. In 1989 he donated a large part of his works to the Reykjavik Art Museum.
The style of the paintings created by Erro lies on the border between surrealism and pop art. The main theme of his paintings is the depiction of modern civilisation, its technical perfection and its inhumanity. He also uses comic book techniques and science fiction themes in his work.
1932