Sunday June 14th at 1 p.m., artist Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson will welcome guests for a talk of his newly opened solo exhibition, Great World, together with Aldís Arnardóttir, curator of the exhibition and director of Hafnarborg.

In the exhibition Great World, dreamlike reality meets reflections on human existence and the natural world, with the two appearing as an indivisible whole. Helgi Þorgils’s visual language is figurative and narrative, composed of countless symbols. Figures appear in ambiguous yet familiar settings, where Icelandic nature, birds, marine animals, religious and symbolic elements are woven together in a poetic manner. At once delicate and powerful, the imagery reaches beyond earthbound reality. A great world where narrative and feeling work together, as beauty hovers at the threshold between the perceptible and the imagined.
Curated by Aldís Arnardóttir.

For decades, Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson has been one of Iceland’s most prolific artists. From the beginning of his career in the mid-1970s, he attracted attention for an innovative and highly personal narrative approach that has earned him a distinctive place in Icelandic art and recognition on the international stage. Over the course of his long career, his visual language has been in constant development, with human existence at its centre. Helgi Þorgils has exhibited widely since 1974, including as Iceland’s representative at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and at prominent museums and exhibition spaces in Europe and the United States.

Free entry – everyone welcome.