101 Reykjavík, 1996
Book, 20 x 12.5 cm, 382 p, language : Icelandic, publisher : Uglan Íslenski kiljuklúbburinn, Reykjavík.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 20026/277).
Literary synopsis
Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy, unthreatening world is shaken when his mother comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101 Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun along the way at such foibles of our culture as CNN weather reports and porn videos.
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.
Genre: Comedy, Tragic Farce.
Publishing: Publishing House.
Theme: Homosexuality, Humor, Perverse Sexuality.
Artist
> Hallgrímur Helgason.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.