Vision is Richer in History – an exhibition of methods for making printmaking that has opened in the museum is dedicated to Ólafur Hvanndal, a printmaker [1879-1954]. The fall of 2019 marked 100 years since his company Prentmyndagerðin began operating in the loft at Þingholtsstræti 6 and 70 years since he donated prints of all his printmaking to the National Library. Ólafur was a pioneer of changes in printmaking in Iceland that are no less important than the beginning of printmaking in Iceland with the use of cursive script. The exhibition is part of the research project Vision in Context, in which Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon (Goddur), research professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Unnar Örn, a visual artist, focus on the use of imagery in the history of Icelandic printing from 1844–1944. The project is supported by the research fund Rannís and is a collaboration between the Iceland Academy of the Arts, the National and University Library of Iceland and the Design Museum of Iceland. Goddur gave a lunchtime lecture at the museum on this occasion on Wednesday 24 June at 12.10.
The exhibition runs until December 31, 2020.