Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson

Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson

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  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 15, 2020

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Eins og Málverk eftir Eggert Pétursson

Director

Gunnlaugur Þór Pálsson

Description

“Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson” is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson. In moraines near Skaftafell Glacier and close to the Arctic Circle at Tröllaskagi peninsula we discover the film’s dynamic cornerstone on our trip through the Highlands. Our guide is botanist Thóra Ellen Thórhallsdóttir, who connects the dots between our experience of the Icelandic nature and the floral diversity of Eggert’s flower paintings. Eggert is a conceptual artist with a realistic vision of form and structure, but the imagination is tied to interpretation and his own sense of painting. From his book of sketches, surrounded by a musical ode to Mother Nature, the flora’s perseverance and complexity matches the world of the painting while emphasizing the coexistence of these two worlds.