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Saturday November 29th at 1 p.m.<\/strong>, artist Eggert P\u00e9tursson<\/strong>, will welcome visitors and discuss his work at his newly opened exhibition Redden<\/em>, alongside Ald\u00eds Arnard\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, curator and director of Hafnarborg. The exhibition features both new paintings and prints by the artist, who has long been recognised for his singular and passionate engagement with Icelandic nature, particularly the country\u2019s flora.<\/p>\n

In the lower gallery of Hafnarborg, Eggert presents new works, including paintings made especially for this exhibition, continuing his exploration of Icelandic nature \u2013 this time turning his gaze slightly upward, toward the mountain slopes and open sky. The smallest plants become part of a vast landscape, where vegetation and the surface of the earth are transformed into finely tuned compositions that reflect time, light, and the shifting character of the land. The exhibition also includes a series of new prints made in connection with a forthcoming Icelandic translation of Paradise<\/em> from Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em>, where the spiritual and symbolic world resonates with the artist\u2019s grounded vision.<\/p>\n

Eggert P\u00e9tursson (b. 1956) lives and works in Reykjav\u00edk. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. His works have been exhibited at The Living Art Museum, Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, Hafnarborg, Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen and Pori Art Museum in Finland. In 2006, he received second prize in the Carnegie Art Award (Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjav\u00edk, Copenhagen and Nice). He also illustrated the popular edition of Icelandic Flora by \u00c1g\u00fast H. Bjarnason, first published in 1983. Eggert is represented by i8 Gallery in Reykjav\u00edk, where he has exhibited frequently, and several books have been dedicated to his work.<\/p>\n

Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday November 29th at 1 p.m., artist Eggert P\u00e9tursson, will welcome visitors and discuss his work at his newly opened exhibition Redden, alongside Ald\u00eds Arnard\u00f3ttir, curator and director of Hafnarborg. The exhibition features both new paintings and prints by the artist, who has long been recognised for his singular and passionate engagement with Icelandic nature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14458,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-14464","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\/14464","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\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14495,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/14464\/revisions\/14495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}