IslANDs - Painterly Experiments & Exploded Sculptures

According to the winning master plan, phase II of the SICPAC
cultural complex will include a hotel with a guest house annex,
a high-end art and crafts/design mall with a cinemaplex, a
theater, dance academy and an international residency for
artists, designers and musicians. GB-AAA was also the selected
architects for the design of The Ampati Cultural Center, Meghalaya
(auditoriums, exhibitions spaces and arts and crafts museum),
the Tura Cultural Center (auditoriums and exhibitions spaces and
arts and crafts museum), and the Ampati International Football
Stadium. Furthermore, Gudjon/GB-AAA were selected for “The
Orange Stadium”; an international multi-sports arena, containing
a sports museum in Tura, Meghalaya.
In 2013 GB-AAA was nominated for the best designed store for a
fashion outlet the new Hyderabad airport. Additionally, in 2014
GB-AAA participated in an international competition for a Buddha
memorial and museum in Patna, Bihar which generated much
interest. Gudjon was selected by the Sikh community in Delhi
in 2015 to make a proposal for a new progressive secondary
school in South Delhi.
In 2015 Gudjon was selected leading architect for the AB Luxury
Resort, Villas and Spa in South-Pondicherry on 40 acres of land.
Furthermore, he was selected as a finalist for the upcoming
Pondicherry Multi-cultural Municipal Art Center and 2017 year
Gudjon was selected the architectural designer for the innovative
SVARAM-Musical Instruments & Research in Auroville, Tamil
Nadu.
Gudjon sat on the editorial board of the Icelandic magazine
“Architecture & Planning” for a decade and has published
writings in journals on architecture and art in international design
magazines.
A number of publications have been published and dedicated
to Gudjon’s work, such as “Minimal Baroque”; two catalogs
published by the Nordic House in Reykjavik in 1996 when
Gudjon was selected the institution’s Summer Artist of the
Year. “Contemporary Masters” was published by Art Source Inc.
Switzerland, “In The Forbidden Landscape”was published by the
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway and “EXploding MEaning”, a
237 page art book was, in addtion, published by The Reykjavik Art
Museum which features a main article by Art in America´s man.
editor, Richard Vine and 25 other distinguished writers e.g.: Lilly
Wei, Dominique Nahas, Thor Vilhjálmsson and the international
artist Dennis Oppenheim. Moreover, catalogues on his multimedia
works have been published by HP Garcia gallery, New York
with essays by collection “The Modern Movement: Pentimenti
and other Tectonic Fables” by Prof. Livio G. Dimitriu, published
by the USA Institute.
Since 2014, he has creatively collaborated, under the name G&B
design, with the Stockholm based fashion designer Gigja Isis on
luxury domestic design and fashion items utilizing the pictorial
graphic world of his multi-layered paintings and politically based
photography as a textile iconography.
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