Artist Statement – Tolli
Put on your hiking boots and get out into nature. Climb a mountain, stand on top, reflect and feel life. The mountain should penetrate your body and mind through every step towards the top.
Tolli paints magnificent light-filled colorful and dramatic landscapes with mountains as well as foregrounds of lakes and lava deposits. He gives us the essence of Icelandic nature in both a material and spiritual sense.
One feels the sensitivity of the spontaneous expressive strokes of paint that cover the canvas, and the light that almost transcends into a sacral explosion.
Tolli certainly brings us a valuable message of coexistence and love for humanity and nature.
Annegrethe Davis
CV
Tolli Morthens (Þorlákur Kristinsson) *1953 Reykjavik
Lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland
Education
1976 – 1983: The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik.
1983 – 1985: Hochschule der Künste, Berlin.
2004 – 2008: ophold og atelier i København.
Exhibitions
2023: Nature, Love and Peace, Davis Gallery, Copenhagen
2019: Storytellinh Horizon, Bredgade Kunsthandel, Copenhagen
2017: The Icelandic Connection, Bredgade Kunsthandel, Copenhagen
2001: Småralind Shopping Mall, solo
1982: Nordic House, Reykjavik, groupshow debut
