Paint together in a junk style
In The basement of the Epal store on Laugavegur is now a show Skripó, where a journalist met Guðjón Viðarsson Scheving and Kára Þór Arnarsson this week where they were in a hurry to hang up big and colorful paintings they work in collaboration. The paintings include all kinds of figures; Humans, animals and monsters, to name a few. The boys have drawn scraps from childhood but are now taking their art a step further.
Drawn together from childhood
« We have been friends since in kindergarten and have always enjoyed drawing and creating together, » says Gudjon.
« We then developed a style to draw together and often exchanged sheets where others may have drew eyes and then the other nose and then was divided again. So we drawn all kinds of figures and are actually using that method still today, » says Kari.
« We did this to about thirteen years of age and then we took on sports and other hobbies, but then we were actually together on the art track in FG, » says Gudjon.
The boys have a studio in Gardabaer and always have at least two works in processing at a time.
« Most often we start by drawing shapes on the canvas and then fill in the shapes for example with faces, » says Kari.
« Yes, and often we make strange shapes to challenge each other, » says Gudjon, but for the work they use acrylic paint and acrylic pen.
Humor in this
Numerous hours are behind one painting. Behind the biggest pictures are over a hundred hours, but the boys have painted between fifty and sixty works.
« We have been successful selling and there is always something in the pipeline, » says Gudjon, but the boys sell through the Instagram page Skipo_art and on the website Skripo.com. Sometimes they get special orders and then customers can make wishes for, for example, colors and figures.
« We are grateful Epal for allowing us to have an exhibition here, » says Kari, but the show will be open until April 25. They also sell numbered reprints that are created in limited edition.
« There is humor in the pictures and we are very free in this. It is light on these pictures, » says Gudjon.
There is a more detailed interview with Kári and Guðjón in the Sunday newspaper Morgunblaðið this weekend.
