{"id":11736,"date":"2023-09-25T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=11736"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:31:22","slug":"landscape-for-the-chosen-ones-curator-and-artist-talk","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/landscape-for-the-chosen-ones-curator-and-artist-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape for the Chosen Ones \u2013 Curator and Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday October 1st at 2 p.m.,<\/strong> we invite you to a talk of our autumn exhibition, <em>Landscape for the Chosen Ones<\/em>, hosted by artist <strong>Fritz Hendrik IV<\/strong> and <strong>Eva L\u00edn Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, who curates the exhibition along with Odda J\u00fal\u00eda Snorrad\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition explores the aesthetics of escapism. We live in a time of overwhelming and drastic changes within a society that increasingly expects individuals to take personal responsibility for global issues. Therefore, escapism has become intertwined with everyday life, yet its manifestations are multifaceted, although they often reflect the situations they are sprouted from.<\/p>\n<p>The participating artists are Arna Beth, Fritz Hendrik IV, Margr\u00e9t Helga Sesseljud\u00f3ttir, S\u00f3l Hansd\u00f3ttir, Vikram Pradhan, B\u00edb\u00ed S\u00f6ring and \u00der\u00e1ndur J\u00f3hannsson, but the exhibition also features works by Eir\u00edkur Smith, Patrick Huse and Sigrid Valtingojer from the collection of Hafnarborg and the AS\u00cd Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fritz Hendrik IV<\/strong> (b. 1993) is an Icelandic visual artist based in Reykjav\u00edk. He is interested in the act of both the conscious and unconscious staging in life, art and culture, as well as the relationship between tradition, perception and knowledge. He has held solo exhibitions in Kling &amp; Bang and \u00c1smundarsalur, as well as having taken part in various group shows at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, the National Gallery of Iceland, Hafnarborg and Moscow Biennale for Young Art in Russia. His works are in private and public collections, such as the National Gallery of Iceland and the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eva L\u00edn Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (b. 1995) recently graduated with an MA degree in philosophy from King\u2019s College London. She holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Iceland and currently works at i8 Gallery,\u00a0Reykjav\u00edk.\u00a0Eva L\u00edn\u00a0has written about art and interviewed artists for several online magazines and publications and continues to expand on her philosophical training throughout her projects. By approaching contemporary art from a philosophical perspective, her work emphasises critical engagement with contemporary art and explores its social framework within visual\u00a0culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday October 1st at 2 p.m., we invite you to a talk of our autumn exhibition, Landscape for the Chosen Ones, hosted by artist Fritz Hendrik IV and Eva L\u00edn Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir, who curates the exhibition along with Odda J\u00fal\u00eda Snorrad\u00f3ttir. The exhibition explores the aesthetics of escapism. We live in a time of overwhelming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11733,"menu_order":94,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-11736","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\/11736","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11736\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}