Sophie Calle
dal 21/6/2010 al 23/10/2010
Segnalato da
21/6/2010
Sophie Calle
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
The exhibition shows a number of the artist's central works; works mix the private with the collective, often draw on journalism, anthropology or psychoanalysis and take their point of departure in literature, the diary or the photo-novel. For "Take Care of Yourself', Calle has invited a wide variety of women to use their various professional skills to give their interpretations of an e-mail where the artist's lover ends their relationship.
Sophie Calle (b. 1953) is one of France’s most appreciated living artists. She often uses herself as a narrative starting-point for the story in the work. This also applies to Take Care of Yourself (Prenez Soin De Vous), which was one of the high lights of the Venice Biennale in 2007, and which has just been presented in an English version.
For this work Calle has invited a wide variety of women (from a ballet dancer to a lawyer) to use their various professional skills to give their interpretations of an e-mail where the artist’s lover ends their relationship. The results are poetic, touching and humorous statements which together form a monumental installation.
With her photographs, texts and film installations Sophie Calle creates what one could call reality-close fictions. The exhibition at Louisiana will be showing a number of the artist’s central works; works that play with our perception of reality, mix the private with the collective, often draw on journalism, anthropology or psychoanalysis and take their point of departure in literature, the diary or the photo-novel.
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The Danish Collection
Louisiana's major collection of modernist Danish art is presented this summer. To a large extent these important works, which form part of the original museum collection and concept, will afterwards be travelling to new destinations around Denmark.
When Louisiana opened in 1958 it was as a museum of modern Danish art. For several years the founder of the museum, Knud W. Jensen, had collected works by Danish modernists who now found a home in Humlebæk. But after just a few years, in connection with the big Documenta exhibition in Kassel in Germany in 1959, the Louisiana Museum changed its orientation and now saw it as its clear mission to present international art.
Although for many years the museum continued to acquire works by Danish artists, in time it focused exclusively on those Danish artists who had an international career – Asger Jorn and Per Kirkeby for example. Later, from around the turn of the millennium, this focus has increased, inasmuch as Danish contemporary art has played an ever-growing role outside the borders of the country.
Louisiana’s collection of Danish art up to around 1960 includes a wide range of major works in the history of Danish art – works that deserve to be shown more frequently than is possible in Humlebæk, states Poul Erik Tøjner, director of the museum. The museum therefore decided in 2010 to implement a major long-term loan plan and has offered the state-recognized Danish museums the opportunity to choose pictures and sculptures from a pool of around a hundred works. In this way Louisiana’s Danish works not only see the light of day; often they find more congenial or more meaningful company than they had before.
Over the summer a large number of these works will now be hanging at Louisiana; from there they will be travelling later in the year to their respective destinations, lent out for the next ten years.
Contact
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Susanne Hartz Tlf. +45 8843 5052 Email: press@louisiana.dk
Opening 22 June 2010
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13, Humlebaek Danimarca
Hours: Tues - Fri 11-22, Sat and Sun 11-18
Monday closed
Admission
Admission DKK 95
Groups (min. 15) Per person DKK 90
Groups (min. 15) Students DKK 80
Children and young people up to 18 Free admission