NEWS

05. október 2009
 As Iceland "celebrates" its first anniversary of THE BIG CRASH, HH opens an art exhibition titled "The Icelandic Expansion 2009" - a sarcastic title, since "The Icelandic Expansion" (Icelandic business-viking-raids on foreign shores) came to a shrieking halt one year ago. The show features a series of photographs shot last January in an unnamed country in southern Africa, showing a once invincible, now desperate Icelandic "business-viking" wandering around the poor third world suburbs, sleeping on the beach and begging in the street. Show is at The Contemporary Art Gallery, Skólavörðustígur 3, 101 Reykjavik, 7-20 October 2009.
01. október 2009
HH was invited to be among the speakers at the opening ceremony of the art festival in Bergen Norway last May, a black tie event held at the big and festive Grieghallen, with the king and queen of Norway up front. HH's speech focused on the current crisis in Iceland and the relations between the two countries. It was recorded by Norwegian Televison, NRK, and is now available on youtube.com.

ART

PAINTINGS:
1983-1996

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Skáldanótt

Skáldanótt (2000)

Poets’ Night is a play in verse written for the Reykjavík Municipial Theatre where it was performed in the fall of 2000, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson. Partly influenced by Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, the play takes place on the (fictional) annual night in Iceland when all the dead poets rise from their graves and go partying downtown. Everybody wants to meet their favorite old master: The young poets run all over town looking for “their man”. The feast ends with a “Poets’ Fight” where the young ones wrestle with words like boxers in a ring. The dead ones act as judges.

Poets’ Night was based on the Hallgrimur’s poem The Search for Jónas Hallgrímsson that appeared in Collected Poems (1978-1998). The play was written in February of 2000.

The critics were split in their decision. Some hated it, others loved it. No big success at the box office, the play received the daily DV Cultural Prize for Theatre in 2001.


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BOOKS

Hella
Þetta er allt að koma
101 Reykjavík

Ljóðmæli
Skáldanótt
Höfundur Íslands

Rómeó og Júlía
Hr. Alheimur
Rokland

Best of Grim


The Kodak Moments




The Boston Papers