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Enginn Gleypir S​ó​lina

by Magnús Pálsson

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    45-Page Hardback Book Contains:

    2023 Liner Notes by Adam Buffington (in English & Icelandic)
    1993 Exhibition Notes by Magnús Pálsson (in English & Icelandic)
    Exhibition and Script Photographs

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2023 Liner Notes by Adam Buffington (in English & Icelandic)
1993 Exhibition Notes by Magnús Pálsson (in English & Icelandic)
Exhibition and Script Photographs

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In February 1993, at artist Hannes Lárusson’s Gallerí 11 in Reykjavik,
Magnús Pálsson exhibited two installations, one in each of the gallery’s two rooms. In the first was Enginn Gleypir Sólina (No One Swallows The Sun). In the adjacent room was its companion work Herra Túrpur Jónsson (Mister Túrpur Jónsson).

Each room featured four wall-mounted loudspeakers, one in each corner emanating vocalized grunts, sighs, and syllables in between extensive passages of Icelandic and nonsensical language. On the floor beneath each loudspeaker was a generous mound of snuff tobacco. Upon each pile was a cluster of sizable, hand-painted paper-mâché noses. The snuff evoked a sense of nostalgia, its smell permeated Gallerí 11 as the loudspeakers relayed various anecdotes, verses, and vernacular expressions Pálsson heard throughout his life.

Enginn Gleypir Sólina and Herra Túrpur Jónsson, referred to by Pálsson as “vocal sculptures,” exemplify Pálsson’s life-long fascination with language, and encapsulate his interdisciplinary exploration challenging disciplinary boundaries in order to cultivate new manners of expression.

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released May 1, 2023

Text: Magnús Pálsson, Adam Buffington
Translations: Magnús Pálsson, Frances Cowan, Tumi Magnússon
Photos: Hannes Lárusson, Frances Cowan
CD Photo: Kristinn G. Harðarson
Design: Tumi Magnússon
Print: Prentmet Oddi, Reykjavik
CD Production: Myndbandavinnslan, Reykjavík
Performers: Baldvin Halldórsson, Eyvindur Erlendsson, Guðbjörg Thoroddsen, Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir, Karl Guðmundsson, Magnús Pálsson, Tumi Magnússon
Direction: Eyvindur Erlendsson
Sound Recording and Mixing: Júlíus Agnarsson

Supported by the Icelandic Visual Arts Fund

Published by Mumbling Eye, 2023
© Magnús Pálsson and Mumbling Eye

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"The next step is for art to become mere smell or sound, phenomena which are visible or visual within the mind all the same. In this way, sound has a form and is an image." - Magnús Pálsson

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