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About Helgi Fríðjónsson
- Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson (born March 7, 1953 in Búðardalur, Iceland) is an Icelandic artist.
- He grew up in Búðardalur and moved at the age of 15 to Reykjavík.
- He studied Fine Arts and Crafts from 1971 to 1976, after which he went to The Hague and studied at De Vrije Academie (1976–77) and then at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
- He returned to Iceland when his studies were finished in 1979. In a monograph by Elena Pontiggia, the artist's work was described as "northern, polar fairytales, full of fish and walrus, crossed by ice sheets and clouds, where unexpected water springs appear and there is an uninterrupted limbo of angels and birds chirping."Helgi represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 1990.
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