Nordic odyssey: in its first edition devoted to the visual arts, the Reykjavik Arts Festival paired a retrospective devoted to the late Dieter Roth with a nationwide exhibition of 35 mostly European and Scandinavian artists responding to Roth's work.

From: Art in America | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Wei, Lilly | Copyright information

Ascreening of Screaming Masterpiece (2005), an exhilarating documentary directed by Ari Alexander Egis Magnusson about Iceland's high-voltage music scene, was one of the opening salvos of the 2005 Reykjavik Arts Festival. This year, for the first time, the festival concentrated on the visual arts and not on the performing arts. Nonetheless, it listed Screaming and several other performance-related works on the official program. Shown at the Regnboginn Cinema, Magnusson's film was p...

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