{"id":2207,"date":"2015-06-22T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hafnarborg.wpengine.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2207"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:20:48","slug":"2207","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/2207\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists talk &#8211; Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson and Stuart Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday\u00a0June 28th at 3 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Stuart Richardson<\/strong>\u00a0talk to museum guests and\u00a0discuss their work in the exhibition <em>No Site<\/em> now on display at Hafnarborg&#8217;s main gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition <em>No site<\/em> is an exhibition of the works of eight artists\u00a0living in Iceland who are turning their gaze towards Icelandic nature. Bj\u00f6rn \u00c1rnason, Claudia Hausfeld, Daniel Reuter, Edda Fransisca Kjarval, Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson, Katr\u00edn Elvarsd\u00f3ttir, P\u00e9tur Thomsen and Stuart Richardson all work with photography as a medium. The works are all made in the timespan 2008 \u2013 2015. The curators are \u00c1slaug \u00cdris Fri\u00f0j\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir and Unnur Mj\u00f6ll S. Leifsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson<\/strong> lives and works in Reykajvik. He studied in The Royal Academy of Fine\u00a0Arts in den Haag and graduated from The Icelandic Academy of Visual Art in 2007.\u00a0Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson\u2019s artistic practice is situated somewhere in between art photography and documentary \u2013 often with a documentary view as starting point and the artistic way of looking at things and creating images as the result. His images are often emptied of human physical presence just showing the landscapes and sites constructed by humans in all its mess and glory.\u00a0His work is not moralising or strictly political just posing some questions making us reflect on how we treat landscapes \u2013 nature\u2019s as well as the urban landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuart Richardson<\/strong> is photographer and printer based in Reykjavik. Originally a student of Russian and Japanese history, he first became interested in photography while on a Fulbright in Vladivostok, Russia. The initial interest grew and he left academia to pursue a career in photography. Largely self-taught, he refined his skills through classes at the International Center of Photography in New York and the Maine Media Workshops. After a visit in the summer of 2005, he fell in love with Iceland, and he subsequently moved there in 2008.\u00a0 In 2009, he opened Custom Photo Lab, where he specializes in printing exhibitions and providing photographic services for fellow photographers and artists. His photography is characterized by the attention paid to subtle details and forms in the natural environment, as well as the interactions between humans and the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>More on the exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/exhibition\/no-site\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u00a0June 28th at 3 p.m.\u00a0Ingvar H\u00f6gni Ragnarsson and\u00a0Stuart Richardson\u00a0talk to museum guests and\u00a0discuss their work in the exhibition No Site now on display at Hafnarborg&#8217;s main gallery. The exhibition No site is an exhibition of the works of eight artists\u00a0living in Iceland who are turning their gaze towards Icelandic nature. Bj\u00f6rn \u00c1rnason, Claudia Hausfeld, Daniel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2036,"menu_order":295,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-2207","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\/2207","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}