Reykjavík Art Museum Hafnarhús
Former harbor warehouse turned gallery, home to a comic-book pop artist's playful, room-sized collage paintings.
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This guide to Reykjavik Art Museum Hafnarhus follows the building's turn from a fish and cargo warehouse into a gallery, and then into a showcase for the artist Erro. Born Gudmundur Gudmundsson in the fishing town of Olafsvik, he left Iceland for Paris and built a career out of collecting comic books, pulp magazines and advertising clippings, then cutting and pasting them into crowded collage paintings. You'll hear how a huge share of that collection made its way back to Reykjavik in nineteen eighty-nine. Look for the superheroes crashing into propaganda posters on the walls around you.
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