Gardar Eide Einarsson

Frankfurter Kunstverein: Gardar Eide Einarsson uses a great variety of media in his works: painting,
prints, photography as well as installation and video. The works of Gardar
Eide Einarsson are paradoxical and have a quality of low visual density.
That is, in the images and the spatial arrangements, all elements seem like
fragments of a bigger reality removed from the world outside and dragged
into the image and exhibition space. Using what at first sight looks like a
very depurated formalistic language the artist poses to the viewer the
question of what he really is looking at. By absorbing and then isolating
motifs from the so-called underground music and from literature scenes
and then weaving them together with political references, Gardar Eide
Einarsson forces us to reflect upon the difference between contemplating
an image and using it.