Olafur Thordarson, architecture, objects, urban design, art

OLAFUR THORDARSON

MONSTERS exhibition at Reykjavik City Hall 2007. Suspended polyurethane resin maps with references to the national character.

Eilífðardraumurinn. 40 ft sculpture. Floating in an Icelandic glacial river, moving against the stream in an ongoing moving image of a vessel. Polyurethane resin foam, 1200x280x380 cm. 6 Tons, Commissioned by Landsvirkjun, Iceland

Thordarson's floating sculpture in place in an east Iceland river.

Thordarson holding his floating mask in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.

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Gegnumgangur-Passage
Book with the hole.
124 page publication on Thordarson's work from 1977-2007. Published in June 2007.

UL1 Light study design 1999-2000, featured at the "European Design since 1985" exhibition at Indianapolis Museum of Art

The Mask Floating sculpture and video. Exhibition 2009, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður Iceland.

...Thordarson brings us the fresh element of surprise, experimentation, guts and daring to create art/objects-often intertwined-into objects .. full of surprises and innovation...an ingenious combination

George Beylerian New York From the book Olafur Thordarson, p. 26, 2001

Double faced worm shelf Furring strips and cast resin
200 x 183 x 37 cm Design 1991. Featured in numerous articles, including Graphis, Centras and Plaza magazines.