In Bergþór Morthens‘s artwork the lines between a painting and a sculpture are unclear but the material is the same, as are the colors and how they are used. Colors, both as a natural phenomenon and a cultural one. The world of images is alive, and the works fluctuate between a pictorial interpretation and the non-objective. The borders between inner and outer surface and what lies beneath become unclear in grotesque and distorted forms that simultaneously both cover up and expose. Excess and overload, where the process reflects society‘s extreme materialism: construction and demolition, creation and destruction. The works refer to history, modernity, pop-culture, art history, politics, the strange and the grotesque.

Bergþór Morthens (born 1979) studied at the Akureyri School of Visual Arts and finished an MFA degree from the Valand University in Gothenburg 2015. His works have been exhibited in Iceland, Sweden, Greece and Romania.