“Sigurður Guðmundsson’s exhibition The Universe is a Poem features a range of different works from the years 1969–2021. Guðmundsson’s career is multi-faceted and the mediums diverse, but a poetic tone has always enwreathed his works; whether works of photography, sculptures, drawings, graphic works or performances, but he has also composed music, written poetry, and published four novels. The exhibition is a logical continuation of Sigurður’s most recent publication Ljóð og Ljóð (Poems and Poems), a collection of the artist’s written poetry, published in 2020. The works in the exhibition are poems in and of themselves – as the exhibition title suggests – but the artist views the universe as a poem and in his dealings with it, he finds it is both good and right to experience the universe as a poem (SG, The Universe, 2019).”
Published on the occasion of an exhibition in Djúpivogur, several succinct statements by the artist about his work, followed by photographs documenting performances and installations followed by a poem (translated into English by Thórarinn Eldjárn).
Hard cover, 18 x 13,5 cm, 44 not numbered pages, signed, 2021
ISBN: 978-9935-24-995-1
