{"id":10860,"date":"2023-02-09T16:08:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=10860"},"modified":"2023-02-09T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:56:56","slug":"eirikur-smith-untitled-with-an-art-historian","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/eirikur-smith-untitled-with-an-art-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Eir\u00edkur Smith: Untitled \u2013 With an Art Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday February 18th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, art historian <strong>A\u00f0alsteinn Ing\u00f3lfsson<\/strong> will take guests on a walkthrough of the exhibition <em>Untitled<\/em>, featuring abstract works, mainly gouache paintings, by Eir\u00edkur Smith (1925-2016), which the artist made in the early 1950s when geometric abstraction was spreading across the globe, reaching Iceland as a wave of change. Works from this period in the artist&#8217;s career are, however, quite rare, as Eir\u00edkur decided to burn many of these works in a quarry in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in 1957. The ones that have been preserved, nonetheless, demonstrate Eir\u00edkur\u2019s knack for the style, even if he later went in a different direction. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the works have, therefore, not been previously exhibited to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eir\u00edkur Smith<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in 1925 and passed away at his home in town in 2016. Eir\u00edkur was a student at the Painting and Drawing School of Finnur J\u00f3nsson and J\u00f3hann Briem during the winter of 1939-1940 and at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts from 1946-1948. Thereafter, he went to Copenhagen to study drawing and he moved to Paris for further study of the arts at the Acad\u00e9mie de la Grande Chaumi\u00e9re, in 1951. He had numerous solo exhibition, as well as taking part in group exhibitions all over the world throughout his career. Eir\u00edkur\u2019s works can be found in many museums, such as the National Gallery of Iceland, Ger\u00f0arsafn and the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, in addition to Hafnarborg\u2019s vast collection of the artist\u2019s work, counting around 400 works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday February 18th at 2 p.m., art historian A\u00f0alsteinn Ing\u00f3lfsson will take guests on a walkthrough of the exhibition Untitled, featuring abstract works, mainly gouache paintings, by Eir\u00edkur Smith (1925-2016), which the artist made in the early 1950s when geometric abstraction was spreading across the globe, reaching Iceland as a wave of change. Works from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10837,"menu_order":122,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-10860","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/10860\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}