{"id":12641,"date":"2024-05-29T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=12641"},"modified":"2024-06-05T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T15:06:41","slug":"artist-talk-gudny-gudmundsdottir","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/artist-talk-gudny-gudmundsdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk \u2013 Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday June 9th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, artist <strong>Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> will welcome guests at the museum for a talk about her work at the newly opened exhibition <em>Cassiopeia<\/em>, on view at Hafnarborg through the summer. The exhibition features new and recent works by the artist, made on paper and in clay, as well as video works. Through the mirror of art, the works invoke ideas of bruised ego, vanity and self-adulation, seeking inspiration from Greek mythology.<\/p>\n<p>The viewer enters a world of references, encountering titles in various languages (German, French, English and Icelandic), inscriptions and named figures or beings from classical myths. Pulling us backwards and forwards in time, the works make us contemplate the relationships hidden within, forming a constellation that perhaps brings up more questions than answers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir (b. 1970) graduated from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1993 and Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste Hamburg in 2001. She has worked in visual art since, primarily focusing on traditional media, such as drawing, painting, collage, sculpture and photography. Gu\u00f0n\u00fd lives and works in Berlin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday June 9th at 2 p.m., artist Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir will welcome guests at the museum for a talk about her work at the newly opened exhibition Cassiopeia, on view at Hafnarborg through the summer. The exhibition features new and recent works by the artist, made on paper and in clay, as well as video works. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12639,"menu_order":55,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-12641","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\/12641","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12671,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12641\/revisions\/12671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}