My most popular post is one that I wrote after having seen the exhibition “Triumphs and Disasters” by the artist Astrid Sylwan. She is popular and my, rather old, post ranks fairly high on Google.
gl Holtegaard is a little mansion with a beautiful baroque garden to go with it. [xx]
All planned, designed and erected by the architect Lauritz de Thurah in the 1750:s. [xx] [xx]
Nowadays this place houses a gallery for art, mostly contemporary and if not, art that has a bearing on contemporary art; “The ambition is to show older, modern and contemporary art that has a message for people of today” (quote from the website).
1, 2, 5: photo Thomas Hagström, 3, 4: pictures by permission from gl holtegaard
2: Vinyl-terror og -horror: “urban legend” (2010), installation in front of the main building.
3: Sophie Calle: “The chromatic diet” (1997) [xx]
4: Oreet Ashery & Larissa Sansour: “Nonel and Vovel’s Inferno” and prints from “The Novel of Nonel and Vovel” (2009)
5: From the park and garden of gl Holtegaard. March 7 2010.
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David Claerbout
“The Belgian artist David Claerbout works in the borderland between photography and film in his riveting works. Reflecting on the nature of time plays an important role in his works. In ‘Sections of a happy moment’ Claerbout presents a scene with a family photographed from an endless number of angles.” (quote from the introduction to the exhibit). Lovely! (my word)
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Allan Otte – After-images
“The Danish painter Allan Otte creates unexpected encounters with nature in his modern landscape paintings. Disaster has often struck in Otte’s paintings, where the landscape is typically portrayed as a background for smashed-up vans, abandoned cars and deserted industrial buildings.” (quote from the introduction to the exhibit). It wasn’t a waste of our time seeing it (my words).
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we still need to see the garden, an upcoming project…
…from a distance it does look interesting [xx]
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6, 7, 8: Photo Thomas Hagström. The park and garden of gl Holtegaard.
May 30 2010 (6, 7), Aug 15 2010 (8).
We took the bikes and went for a quick visit to Louisiana MoMA.
Besides the usual stroll through the park we experienced a fine and substantial exhibition with works by Sophie Calle.
The largest installation on display is “Take care of yourself” from 2007.
In this work Sophie Calle has invited a number of women of different professions to interpret an e-mail that the artist’s lover wrote to end their relationship.
A fantastic work that we spent a good deal of time together with.
Calle is an artist that uses photography as an important part of her tools.
This year she is awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
This is good news as it will mean that there will be another significant exhibition with her works in our neighborhood.
The exhibition at Louisiana MoMA in Humlebæk (north of Copenhagen) ends October 24.
The upcoming exhibit at the Hasselblad center in Gothenburg runs from October 30 until February 6 2011.
After lunch we moved on our bikes again towards the modest open-air museum Flynderupgaard near Helsingør.
We saw a very amusing and energetic performance of the piece “La Fontaine” by the “Dansk Rakkerpak” of the Copenhagen International Street Theatre.
This was part of the programme of Passage10 a “transnational street theatre festival” that took place in Helsingør and Helsingborg in the beginning of August.
It was a surprisingly warm and sunny day.
The evening was lovely.
[ Sunday Aug 8 ]
A rainy day, no doubt.
Arrival Nørreport by Øresundstoget. Change to the Metro. Exit at Kongens Nytorv.
Quick walk in the rain to Café Blå Time.
A place we almost never misses if we have business in central Copenhagen.
Good café-eating, good coffe, great natural atmosphere of the domestic kind.
Modestly situated at Store Kongensgade not far from anything really.
Went on to Kunstindustrimuseet (The Danish museum of Art & Design), a great place for historical design and craftsmanship.
The museum is situated in a building for which the word beautiful is very fitting.
The house was built in the 1750:s to designs by the architects Niels Eigtved and Lauritz de Thurah.
Thurah is also the architect behind the excellent Gammel Holtegaard, which nowadays functions as an art venue/gallery for (usually) modern art.
Next stop for us ambitious folks was Charlottenborg, the town castle that lies opposite the attractive (for tourists at least) Nyhavn.
We took ourselves through the (very interesting, clever and entertaining) degree show of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
This year it is called Afgang (MFA Degree Show).
We were slowly depleted of energy which is easy to understand considering that 34 different individual projects were shown, “and 34 arrows are sent off into space in different directions” (as the catalogue text puts it).
As a final (besides the lovely ice cold coca cola!) we were slowly taken down and soothed by a quiet and white room installation by Henrik B. Andersen, “Sliding Zones” (right picture).
After this visit we said “no more installations!! please, some old fashioned paintings instead”.
But we don’t really mean it.
On the way (in the rain rain rain) to the train we stopped by at Illums boligvaruhus.
After dinner I went home to Helsingborg.
Another good weekend came to an end
Slideshow opportunity…:
All pictures are by me. More information is found together with the pictures published on flickr (a click on the picture takes you to the picture as it stands on flickr).
