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6/2/2001

Echoes of the Scream

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj

The exhibition "Echoes of the Scream" is ARKEN's major spring exhibition. It shows Edvard Munch's overt and covert significance to world art after World War II. This is the first time that an exhibition addresses and illustrates the echoes of Munch's entire oeuvre.

In addition to Scream, "Echoes of the Scream" includes several other major works by Munch, including Jealousy, Kiss, and Angst. The exhibition also comprises a small but discerning selection of Munch's graphic arts and drawings, which supplement and complete our image and perception of the artist.

Munch's Scream visits Arken.

Arken has mounted an exhibition that focuses on Edvard Munch's influence on world art after World War II.

Edvard Munch's painting Scream is the Norwegian artist's most powerful expression of fear as theme and creative power. This fundamentally Symbolist picture epitomises his own work, while also sketching the first outlines of Expressionism.

Now, this famous painting can be seen at Arken, where the exhibition "Echoes of the Scream" reverberates in the museum halls. For the first time an exhibition addresses and examines the significance of Munch's entire oeuvre to world art during the period after World War II. In addition to Scream, which dates back to 1893, the exhibition comprises 25 of Munch's major works, including Angst, Jealousy and Kiss, as well as drawings and graphic works.

"Echoes of the Scream" begins where the previous Munch exhibition at Arken: Edvard Munch - The Simple Life ended: At the Ekely estate, where Munch died in 1944.

Just one year later - after the end of World War II - the solitary Nordic artist had become a myth. Peace provided the basis for renewed artistic dialogues. In 1945, the Danish artist Asger Jorn was one of the first to travel to Oslo to see the first major Munch exhibition after the war. And Jorn was not the only artist to be inspired by Edvard Munch in the decades to come. His work has had a direct, as well as a more covert, impact on a series of the major artists of the period. Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gilbert & George, Yannis Kounellis, Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Joseph Beuys, Georg Baselitz and Antonio Saura: all admirers of Munch, and all included in ECHOES of the SCREAM.

The exhibition is created in collaboration with the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.

Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst - Skovvej 100 - Arken - Tel. 45 4354 0222 - Fax. 45 4354 0522

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