{"id":13942,"date":"2025-07-08T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=13942"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:49:23","slug":"of-substance-and-essence-with-an-art-historian","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/of-substance-and-essence-with-an-art-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Substance and Essence \u2013 With an Art Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday August 17th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, art historian <strong>A\u00f0alsteinn Ing\u00f3lfsson<\/strong>\u00a0will lead guests on a walkthrough of the exhibition\u00a0Of Substance and Essence, which looks back on the long and diverse career of the artist Eir\u00edkur Smith. This is also the last day of the exhibition, which is presented to mark what would have been the centenary of the artist.<\/p>\n<p>The career of Eir\u00edkur Smith (1925-2016) was both long and diverse. He approached painting as a form of expression and left behind a body of work that reveals a remarkable command of subjects as different as geometric abstraction, expressive abstract painting and realist imagery. The human figure is often placed in the foreground while the land and the works of humankind create a powerful setting. Over time, his approach changed considerably, in step with the spirit of the times, but also because the artist deliberately sought new directions.<\/p>\n<p>Eir\u00edkur\u2019s artistic journey can be likened to a pendulum that swings between two poles. He drew inspiration both from the subjective and the objective and in the later stages of his career there are periods in which he moves between the two. In these works, one senses the artist\u2019s reconciliation with the idea that life is best lived in balance, in a state of harmony that is both of substance and essence. The exhibition features select works from across Eir\u00edkur\u2019s career, alongside early drawings from his student years in Copenhagen and Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday August 17th at 2 p.m., art historian A\u00f0alsteinn Ing\u00f3lfsson\u00a0will lead guests on a walkthrough of the exhibition\u00a0Of Substance and Essence, which looks back on the long and diverse career of the artist Eir\u00edkur Smith. This is also the last day of the exhibition, which is presented to mark what would have been the centenary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10837,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-13942","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\/13942","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\/13942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13943,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/13942\/revisions\/13943"}],"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=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}