{"id":11939,"date":"2023-11-06T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=11939"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:33:28","slug":"value-curatorial-talk","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/value-curatorial-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"VALUE \u2013 Curatorial Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday November 12th at 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>we invite you to a curatorial talk of the exhibition <em>VALUE<\/em>, featuring select works that have been acquired by the museum since 2008. Curator <strong>H\u00f3lmar H\u00f3lm<\/strong> will greet guests and speak about this collection exhibition, marking 40 years since the founding of Hafnarborg.<\/p>\n<p>It can be said that a museum or a collection reflects the values of the one doing the collecting. This applies to a public or private collection in equal measure. The collection becomes a statement of the priorities of the person(s) that founded it \u2013 whether by sheer interest, a deep-rooted passion and inner need, or even by happenstance. When a collection is then passed on to the community, it gains a life of its own, revealing something about the community itself as it continues to grow. About the ever-changing zeitgeist and people\u2019s preferences, about materials and focus, about ideas and ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>On view are works by artists Egill S\u00e6bj\u00f6rnsson,\u00a0Georg Gu\u00f0ni,\u00a0Gu\u00f0n\u00fd R\u00f3sa Ingimarsd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0Haraldur J\u00f3nsson,\u00a0Hildigunnur Birgisd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0Ing\u00f3lfur Arnarsson,\u00a0Ingunn Fj\u00f3la Ing\u00fe\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir,\u00a0Philipp Valenta,\u00a0Sirra Sigr\u00fan Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir\u00a0and\u00a0Una Bj\u00f6rg Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday November 12th at 2 p.m.\u00a0we invite you to a curatorial talk of the exhibition VALUE, featuring select works that have been acquired by the museum since 2008. Curator H\u00f3lmar H\u00f3lm will greet guests and speak about this collection exhibition, marking 40 years since the founding of Hafnarborg. It can be said that a museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11944,"menu_order":85,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-11939","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\/11939","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11949,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11939\/revisions\/11949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}