Opening – the aurora and the Arctic Circle
On Thursday 27th August at 8 p.m., we invite you to the opening of two new exhibitions at Hafnarborg, but this time…
Sunday, 8 February at 1 pm will Aldís Arnardóttir and Thordis Johannesdottir, curators, lead visitors through Eggert Pétursson's current exhibitions, Red, and Unu Bjargar Magnúsdóttur, Filling. They both present new works that direct the viewer's attention to the small details and how everything is part of a larger whole, whether it be the earth's vegetation, fiction and non-fiction, material or space.
In the Main Hall of Hafnarborg, Una Björg stakes out a new space within the gallery itself, which is housed in a stately building from 1921 that formerly housed homes and a pharmacy. The Main Hall bears clear signs of this, as the curved façade of the older building is a prominent feature of the hall. One of the exhibition's main works plays the same game – a low partition stretches across the space, moulding itself to the hall, yet still carving out a new space within it. Other works are made especially for the exhibition: sculptures, paintings and works on paper, which create a subtle narrative that relies on the qualities of the space, its materials and light, its possibilities and limitations.
In Sverris Hall, Eggert shows a painting he has created especially for the exhibition, in which he continues his exploration of the Icelandic landscape, now turning his gaze upwards – to the mountain vegetation and the open sky. The smallest plants become a grand landscape where vegetation and the earth's surface transform into a refined composition that reflects time, light and change. Also on display is a series of new graphic works, created in connection with a forthcoming translation of Paradise from Joyfully, divinely by Dante, where a spiritual and symbolic world interacts with the artist's earthly vision.
Free admission – all are welcome.