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Föstudagskvöldið 14. desember opnar ítalska listakonan Serena Grisi sýninguna Horror vacui í Kaktus. Á sýningunni gefur að líta fallegar teikningar sem Serena hefur unnið á Íslandi, en hún hefur búið á Akureyri síðastliðið hálfa árið. Teikningarnar eru unnar út frá hugtakinu "horror vacui" og útskýrir listakonan hugtakið og hugleiðingar sínar í texta á ensku hér að neðan. 

Vart skal taka fram að allir eru velkomnir, í boði verða léttar veitingar og ljúf stund í Kaktus. Við hlökkum til að sjá ykkur öll!

Opnunartímar/ opening hours:

Friday: 20 - 23
Saturday: 14 - 17
Sunday: 15 - 18

About: 
Horror vacui, from Latin, means “fear of empty space”. It was first used by the Italian art critic Mario Praz as an expression to describe the very detailed - almost suffocating - style of interior design in the Victorian Age. 
“Very detailed” is how I would also describe my style which I decided, for once, to abandon, as I abandoned my home to move to Iceland. In fact, I left behind the flourishing and luxuriant Italian countryside as well as beautifully suffocating historical cities to choose the vast emptiness of the Icelandic lands. The overwhelming awe that such lands evoke in me could only be translated in a much simpler and “unpolished” style of my drawings.
All the works of this series are speaking through literature or music, trying to voice, in their own way, different kinds of emptiness and nostalgia.

- Serena