LOUISIANA autumn 2014

AUTUMN 2014 ENGLISH

EMIL NOLDE

OLAFUR ELIASSON RIVERBED PHILIP GUSTON PAINTING, SMOKING, EATING SEE MAP ON THE BACK PAGE

EMIL NOLDE EXHIBITION UNTIL 19.10. Emil Nolde (1867-1956) is a powerful colourist and one of the most important representatives of German Expressionism. Louisiana's major and comprehensive presentation takes a fresh look at Nolde’s oeuvre as a whole and shows new and surprising aspects of this leading modernist artist.

Watercolours on Japanese paper by Emil Nolde, above Poppy and Sea with Light Violet Cloud, both undated. Right: Mrs. T. with a Red Necklace, 1930. All © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll.

THE EXHIBITION is a collaboration with Städel Museum, Frankfurt with loans from Nolde Stiftung Seebüll.

Offering a rare and exciting chance to learn more about the many varied facets of Emil Nolde’s life and work, this exhibition gives an overview of Nolde's entire career as well as adding new, fascinating perspectives on the artist and his work.

On show are not only Nolde’s impressive and well-known landscapes and flower motifs, but also Berlin nightlife scenes as well as paintings from his voyage to the South Seas and images with religious content. This retrospective shows how Emil Nolde experimented with different approaches to painting until he found his own characteristic style.

A major theme in itself is Nolde's long life of nearly 90 years and presence as a figure in Germany from the late 19th century to the Nazi era and the post-war years.

The exhibition comprises 150 works and is divided into 11 thematic chapters such as Tempests of Colour, Seascapes and View of an Exotic World. Included are works, which since Nolde’s death have only been shown – if at all – in his own house in Seebüll in Schleswig-Holstein.

OLAFUR ELIASSON RIVERBED

EXHIBITION 20.8.14 – 4.1.15 Olafur Eliasson's take on Louisiana is radical, fascinating and unique.

The central work is a huge, sitespecific project that reverses the relation between nature and art.

Olafur Eliasson's solo exhibition at Louisiana is site-specific and engages with the museum’s unique identity. The exhibition consists of three sections that each thematize the encounter between Eliasson’s art and Louisiana as a place. The central work, Riverbed (2014), is based on the unique connection between nature, architecture and art that characterizes the museum. Transforming the entire South Wing into a rocky landscape, Eliasson focuses on inhabiting space in a new way and inserts new patterns of movement into the museum. This sculptural approach to the body’s movement in space is also at the heart of three recent film works presented in The Hall Gallery. The third station of the exhibition is the Model room (2003), an installation that opens a window into Eliasson’s laboratory, revealing the unbroken flow between experiment, process and finished work that distinguishes his method as an artist.

Riverbed, 2014. Š Olafur Eliasson

PHILIP GUSTON EXHIBITION UNTIL 7.9. Philip Guston (1913-1980) is one of the most important 20th century painters. Louisiana marks the centenary of his birth by presenting a select of his late works – a milestone in American painting.

Above: Philip Guston, The Studio, 1969, and (right) The Line, 1978. both Š The Estate of Philip Guston.

THE EXHIBITION has been organized in collaboration with Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. It is shown in the East Wing (below ground level) and accessed from the Louisiana Cafe.

Philip Guston was a highly respected member of the circle of Abstract Expressionist painters in New York from the end of the 1940s. Around 1968, however, he changed course in a dramatic way, abandoning abstraction for a strikingly figurative, almost comic-strip-like mode of expression. Philip Guston thus became a standard-bearer for the revival of the figurative tradition in American art in the 1970s and 1980s.

The exhibition title Painting Smoking Eating implies that during the last years of his life Guston only drew and painted himself and his immediate surroundings. Combining misery, sensitivity and humour, this relationship with reality is transformed into a pictorial world of great human strength.

The Calder terrace in front of the Louisiana Cafe is a perfect place to relax and enjoy the panoramic view of the Øresund straight. Photo: Kim Hansen Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Gl. Standvej 13 DK-3050 Humlebæk +45 4919 0719 mail@louisiana.dk Opening hours Tuesday – Friday: 11:00 – 22:00 Saturday – Sunday: 11:00 – 18:00 Public holidays: 11:00 – 18:00 Monday: closed

Admission prices Individuals: DKK 110 Students with student ID: DKK 95 Children and youth up to 18: free Groups (min. 15): Per person: DKK 100 Per student: DKK 90 Louisiana Club members: free Club members’ guests (max. 4): DKK 90

IN 2014 LOUISIANA RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM A.O. THE FOLLOWING: Louisiana's Main Corporate Partners:

NORTH WING LAKE GARDEN

THE CONCERT HALL

JORN GALLERY

CALDER TERRACE

HALL GALLERY

EAST WING

(BELOW GROUND LEVEL)

HENRY MOORE (Panoramic view)

ØRESUND

SOUTH WING

WEST WING

EMIL NOLDE until 19 Oct 2014

EAST WING

PHILIP GUSTON Until 7 Sep 2014

SOUTH WING

OLAFUR ELIASSON 20 Aug 2014 – 4 Jan 2015 (please note the exhibition is also in The Jorn Gallery and The Hall Gallery)

Gl. Strandvej 13 3050 Humlebæk +45 4919 0719 www.louisiana.dk

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