We've not taken a look at Reykjavik for a while, but now it's time we went back there I think to take a look at one of the exhibitions that is appearing in the fantastic Reykjavik Art Museum. November is an excellent time to visit the most northerly city in the world, made even more interesting this year by this exhibit being on.
We're taking a look at Alexander Rodchenko - Revolution in Photography, the exhibit which has traveled the world and even stopped off at the Southbank center for a while, but now is in Reykjavik.
The exhibition looks back at the work of Alexander Rodchenko, one of the most important and influential artists of the early 20th Century.
Reykjavik Art museum are proud to be hosting this exhibition, which should appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in art, political history, photography or graphic art. All of the pieces being shown at the exhibition are from the collection of the Moscow House of Photography Museum/ Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
If you're not aware of the life and works of Alexander Rodchenko - born in St. Petersburg in 1891, he worked as an artists and designer from 1915. Utilising multiple forms of media, he started out his career as a painter and scultop, before moving onto photography in 1925. He was a pioneer of photography and graphic design, designing book covers, adverts, and posters in collaboration with Varvara Stephanova, his wife and closest colleague.
Rodchenko's art is linked closely with the changing Russian Society of the time. Industrialisation and the Russian Revolution were both taking place.
The exhibition has been running for a month already and will continue to run until the 12th of January. Visit on the 17th of November though at 15:00 to hear Benedikt Hjartarson, an assistant professor at the University of Iceland, discuss the works of Rodchenko in more detail.
Entry to the museum costs 1,200 ISK, opening hours are 10:00 - 17:00 Daily.
Our guide to Reykjavik can be downloaded today free of charge through the iTunes store.
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