Hallgrímur Helgason opened an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen on February the 10th, 2024, the exhibition space in Christianshavn dedicated to the far north countries of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The title of the exhibit is “Group Portrait of the Self”; most of the paintings show a group of six to nine different characters, each and everyone a part of the artist’s inner being. The show is on two floors, with the big paintings downstairs and numerous works on paper upstairs, a series titled 4Faced. Each work is a portrait of an imaginary person with a set of four different faces. The artist explains in the catalogue: “For today’s world we all need a set of eight eyes, one for work, one for family, one for Facebook, one for Instagram, one for emails, one for TV, one for X, and one for God.”
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