Troels Worsel
dal 14/3/2008 al 11/5/2008
Segnalato da
14/3/2008
Troels Worsel
SMK National Gallery of Denmark / Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
The Venice Biennial 2007. The artist has followed a career part that has taken him from a painterly idiom rooted in concept and Pop art towards a more subjectively charged vein of painting. His works, often both large in scale and beautiful, foreground and query the particular properties of painting.
The internationally acclaimed Danish artist Troels Wörsel (b. 1950) has followed a career part that has taken him from a painterly idiom rooted in concept and Pop art towards a more subjectively charged vein of painting. His works, often both large in scale and beautiful, foreground and query the particular properties of painting.
Wörsel represented Denmark at the 2007 Venice Biennial, displaying eleven new, large-scale paintings staged as a carefully executed, coherent presentation. The entire installation has been re-hung at the museum in a manner that closely recalls the original Venice staging.
Frames. State of the Art
Until 7 September 2008
The picture frame appears in a plethora of styles, often picture-perfect in execution. Nevertheless, the picture frame has gone through history largely unnoticed, quite literally consigned to the periphery of both the painting and art history. Here, however, an exclusive selection of approximately 200 picture frames, with and without paintings, offers an enjoyable amble through the history of European picture frame, right from early 14th-century medieval altarpieces up to frames created by early 20th century artists. Important loans from collections in Denmark and abroad help create an exhibition which showcases some of the most fantastic examples that could ever be culled from the history of the picture frame. The first of its kind, the exhibition not only offers an historical breakdown of the development of the picture frame; it also elucidates its contexts and significance in the interplay between frame and painting.
Admission fee applies.
Accompanied by book.
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