{"id":9946,"date":"2022-05-21T16:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=9946"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T21:38:55","slug":"artist-talk-sigurdur-amundason","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/artist-talk-sigurdur-amundason\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Talk &#8211; Sigur\u00f0ur \u00c1mundason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saturday May 28th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, we invite you to an artist talk about <strong>Sigur\u00f0ur \u00c1mundason&#8217;s<\/strong> exhibition, <em>What&#8217;s Up, Ave Maria?<\/em>, which has just opened at the museum and will be on view until the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle\">The exhibition presents new and recent works by Sigur\u00f0ur, drawings and video, dealing with symbols, signs, icons or logos. Such signs have weight in our society, even power \u2013 as we seek to interpret the symbols, which tell us something, inform us or communicate a specific message. But what happens if the logo or sign we see does not appear to mark or refer to anything specific? If the logo looks like a logo, uses the language of a logo, but does not point to anything?<\/p>\n<p class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle\"><strong>Sigur\u00f0ur \u00c1mundason<\/strong> graduated from the Department of Fine Art of the Iceland University of the Arts in 2012. Sigur\u00f0ur has had thirteen solo exhibitions so far, for example at Kling &amp; Bang, Kunstschlager, H\u00fasi\u00f0 in Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Open, Ekkisens and Outvert Art Space. He has also participated in many group exhibitions. He has worked as a teacher both at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Visual Art and the Iceland University of the Arts. In 2020, he received a nomination for the Motivational Award of the Icelandic Art Prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry \u2013 everyone welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday May 28th at 2 p.m., we invite you to an artist talk about Sigur\u00f0ur \u00c1mundason&#8217;s exhibition, What&#8217;s Up, Ave Maria?, which has just opened at the museum and will be on view until the end of the summer. The exhibition presents new and recent works by Sigur\u00f0ur, drawings and video, dealing with symbols, signs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9786,"menu_order":150,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-9946","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\/9946","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/9946\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}