Siggi eggertsson biography sample

Reykjavík Grapevine - 11.03.2011, Blaðsíða 13

12 The Reykjavík Grapevine Issue 3 — 2011 Words Haukur S. Magnússon Photography Jói Kjartans TH E PR O FESSO R A N D H IS PIX EL PR IN C E G oddur and Siggi Eggertsson debate design, the w orld GODDUR’S STUDIO, 105 REyKjA- VíK. SATURDAy DECEMBER 18, THREE PM. G: ...I first saw Siggi at Gilið in Akureyri [Akureyri’s ‘art district’] when he was fifteen or sixteen years old. He had a little office there, making posters for [arts society] Gilfélagið and various events they were staging. I knew his mother, and she had told me she had a boy that was making graphics, ask- ing me to peek over his shoulder and tell her if he had any future in the field. That’s the first time we met. I next saw him a couple of years later when he was trying to get into LHÍ [The Icelandic Academy of the Arts] at far too young an age. He was eighteen by then, too young, but he managed to whine his way in. It was a tough deci- sion. You aren’t always doing people a favour by admitting them at a young age; even though they might have enough talent and the technical ability, there’s always a question of whether they’re intellectually developed enough to practice and fathom the ideological discourse, writing essays and whatnot. See, LHÍ is not a technical school

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