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With "For The Time Being" artist Hreinn Fri∂finnsson is presenting his first US-American museum exhibition at Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College. Spanning six decades, the survey highlights the artist’s use of minimal gestures to transform everyday materials into poetic, allusive, and revelatory works of art. "Five Gates for the South Wind", 1971–72, for example, fourteen framed photographs accompanied by a typewritten text, documents a set of freestanding gates the artist built in a remote corner of Iceland, engineered to swing open only when a breeze from the south, proverbially warm, blows. Born and raised in Iceland, Fri∂finnsson came of age as an artist during the 1960s. He moved to Amsterdam in 1971 and began exhibiting his work in museums and galleries across Europe. His early works align with contemporaneous cutting-edge art movements, such as land art and photo conceptualism, but still suggest the distinctively romantic, lyrical, and wry sensibility that would continue to define his practice.