AUTUMN & WINTER 2013/14 ENGLISH
ARCTIC
DREAM DESTINY ADVENTURE BEAUTY
JORN & POLLOCK A MEETING OF GIANTS
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ARCTIC
EXHIBITION 26.9.13.-2.2.14. Snow and ice, darkness and northern lights, beauty, silence, strife and storm. Louisiana heads straight north to a region of magnetic lure. In themes ranging from the sublime to conquest and myth, this spectacular Arctic quest takes you through real-life dramas, harsh conditions and impossible dreams – a journey into the imagination, art, science and breathtaking imagery.
Louisiana’s major, multi-faceted autumn exhibition explores a wonderful, fragile, frightening and powerful world. ARCTIC is a story about dreams, destiny, adventure and beauty. It is a tale of fear, fascination, desire, downfall, and survival in spite of everything. A quest for a location, real and imagined, that through the centuries has stirred up strong drives and emotions, fascinating and attracting artists, scientists, writers and adventurers alike.
Guido van der Werve, Nummer Acht, Everything is going to be alright, 2007, video still Š the artist / Luhring Augustine
Left: Francois-Auguste Biard, Magdalena Bay, Louvre, Paris. Photo: White Images/Scala
Above: Carsten Nicolai, Snow Noise, 2001, mixed materials. Courtesy: Galerie EIGEN+ART and The Pace Gallery © VG Bildkunst Bonn Top right: The international NEEM ice coring project in northwestern Greenland, photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl, A. Wegener Institute Polar landscape, photo from the Fridtjof Nansen expedition, 1894. The National Library, Oslo
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The scope of the exhibition is broader than that of the current political, economic, scientific and ecological interest in the frozen top of the world. “ARCTIC is one of our major fundamental cultural narratives,” says Louisiana Director Poul Erik Tøjner, who conceived the exhibition. “It is a story about how our culture expands and develops through images – images in which the unknown is reflected in the known and in which we celebrate the boundaries of our existence.” Mixing elements, genres and media, the exhibition is divided into various themes. THE SUBLIME treats romantic longing from 1790 to 1830 and the story of the search for the Sir John Franklin expedition juxtaposed with Guido van der Werve’s video of a man walking on the Arctic Ocean (2007). The theme OBSERVATIONS focuses on natural science: ice cores bear witness to the notion that the past is encapsulated and thus still available in the arctic landscape. Original photos of Fridtjof Nansen’s whereabouts are seen alongside early photographs of snow crystals captured by Wilson Bentley (1900) and
Per Kirkeby’s watercolours from Greenland. THE WIDE WORLD presents works by Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, and a story of the world’s most famous iceberg. VOICES AND FACES brings us original Inuit culture, the legendary Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen, and a touching and surreal series of photos by Evgenia Arbugaeva of her Siberian hometown of Tiksi. The theme CONQUEST brings original maps and several aspects of the power struggle in the Arctic. In DESTRUCTION and MYTHOLOGY, we get a close look at heroes – the fictitious, the real, the tragic and the ridiculous – from Superman to Salomon Andrées’ balloon journey to the duel between Cook and Peary to be crowned “the first man on the North Pole”.
Per Kirkeby, Untitled (Greenland), 2011, gouache. Private collection. Courtesy the artist and Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Top of page: Gerhard Richter, Eisberg, 1982, oil on canvas. Private collection
JORN & POLLOCK EXHIBITION 15.11.13-23.2.14. With generous loans from some of the world’s leading museums, Louisiana brings together two gigantic figures of post-war painting – a legendary American and a Danish icon. This exhibition, the first of its kind in the world, juxtaposes two radical and revolutionary artists and offers a unique opportunity to enjoy a series of masterpieces of modern art. Above: Asger Jorn, Formio and Cigalette, 1961 oil on canvas. Louisiana, acquired with support from the Augustinus Foundation
“Sensational” is of course a term to be used sparingly, but it is quite appropriate to describe an exhibition that presents a distinguished selection of works by Jackson Pollock – America’s most famous 20th century artist – side by side with Denmark’s internationally acclaimed mid-century artistic icon Asger Jorn. Although these contemporaries never met
Jackson Pollock, Painting, 1953-1954 ink /oil and gouache on paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York Photo: Scala Archives
in person – Pollock’s centenary was last year and Jorn’s will be celebrated in 2014 – it is obvious that they have much in common. From the outset, both were influenced by the same European avant-garde artistic movements, by Picasso and especially by surrealism. Both worked with automatic drawing, drip, canvases on the floor and experimental ways of
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) and, to the right, Asger Jorn (1914-1963). Both photos: Scanpix
Left: Jackson Pollock, Untitled, around 1949, fabric, paper, cardboard, enamel paint on pavatex. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Photo: Robert Bayer Right: Asger Jorn, Shem the Gracehoper 1961 , oil on canvas. Collier Collection Photo: courtesy Galleri Riis, Oslo
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applying paint. And they were equally fascinated by myths, archetypes and so-called “primitive” art. Strangely perhaps, no attempt to showcase these modern masters together has been made until now, although Asger Jorn’s rude refusal of the prestigious Guggenheim Award in 1963 certainly played a role: Jorn thus turned his back on New York and the leading art scene of the day, missing out on what might have been his definitive international breakthrough. JORN & POLLOCK presents great compositions alternating with intimate studio-like sections showing artistic processes and smaller works. Along the way, similarities leap to the eye as well as the obvious differences between the two, for example in technique and temperament: Pollock stands out as a solitary soul with his drip-paintings dissolving all references, whereas Jorn strives to “free” painting and use his art to influence and communicate directly with society and the individual. Focusing on two decades, 1943-63, the exhibition gives us a singular insight into distinctive American and European approaches to post-war avant-garde art.
COLLECTION
AUTUMN / WINTER Ai Weiwei TILLMANS JESPER JUST WOODMAN RONDINONE RICHTER PICASSO
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