{"id":12633,"date":"2024-05-29T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:05:28","slug":"opening-gudny-gudmundsdottir-cassiopeia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/2024\/05\/29\/opening-gudny-gudmundsdottir-cassiopeia\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening \u2013 Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir: Cassiopeia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday May 31st at 5 p.m.<\/strong>, we invite you to the opening reception of the exhibition <em>Cassiopeia <\/em>by <strong>Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, in Hafnarborg\u2018s lower gallery. 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 and English), 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><strong>Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> (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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday May 31st at 5 p.m., we invite you to the opening reception of the exhibition Cassiopeia by Gu\u00f0n\u00fd Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir, in Hafnarborg\u2018s lower gallery. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}