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THIS SEPTEMBER, Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket will experiment with the reconstruction of ancient sculptures in colour, as they
were originally.
With some 120 original works and reconstructions, the artistic itinerary is chronologically organised, from the better known use of
colour in Egypt to the Greek and the Roman
section.
An international team of archaeologists,
conservators and natural scientists are studying the polychromy of the Greek and Roman statues, turning the idea of the white
world of antiquity upside down.
“A supernatural perfection of the ancient
sculptures, which have always led them to a
level of abstraction, doesn’t exclude the sen-
NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK
opens Sep 13; Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket,
Dante Plads 7, Cph K; glyptoteket.dk
suality of the colour,” explains Jan Stubbe
Østergaard, the exhibition’s research curator
and project co-ordinator.
The research, which started 30 years ago
using new technology in art, permitted the
team to juxtapose colours as revealed under
digital photography and microscopy, although in some cases their traces were visible
to the naked eye.
Neoclassicism definitively contributed to
spread the idea of absolute white associated
with purity, and the evidence of the antiquities’ widespread use of colour was often
ignored in art history.
Transformation means investigation and
recalls the work in progress of the project,
but the final result of the transformation as
conservation brings the works back to their
origins.
The pedagogical aim of the exhibition is
to identify and document the real concept
of colours and show that our reading of the
classical motifs can radically change when
sculptures appear in colour.
NIVAGAARDS MALERISAMLING
TRANSFORMATION
September 2014
Ancher vs Krøyer
opens Sep 27; Arken Museum, Skovvej 100, Ishøj; arken.dk
Friends and rivals, these two
Danish painters influenced
each other’s lives and art. The
exhibition chiefly compares
and contrasts their landscapes
of Skagen, where they both
lived. (FP)
opens Sep 7; Nivaagaards Malerisamling,
Gammel Strandvej 2, Nivå & Øregaard
Museum, Ørehøj Alle 2, Hellerup;
nivaagaard.dk, oregaard.dk
THIS AUTUMN offers two exhibitions
about Danish Golden Age painter Martinus
Rørbye thanks to the co-operation of
Art Copenhagen 2014
opens Sep 19; Forum, Julius Thomsens Plads 1, Frederiksberg; artcopenhagen.dk
Art Copenhagen, Scandinavia’s
biggest modern and contemporary
art fair, will be held for the 18th
time this September. All art lovers
will have the chance to buy works
from international artists. (FP)
Nivaagards Malerisamling and Øregaard
Museum.
With an ethnographic approach,
Rørbye depicted portraits and landscapes,
both in and outside Denmark. While the
museum concentrates on his Danish works,
Malerisamling focuses on his travels in Italy,
Greece and Turkey, where he was mostly
interested in exotic motifs.
The exhibitions complement each other,
but also work as stand-alone projects. (FP)
ORDRUPGAARD.DK
ART COPENHAGEN
SKAGENS MUSEUM
THIS is a fascinating photographic
diary by the German film-maker and
visual artist Wim Wenders.
MARTINUS RØRBYE
The Good Life
Opens Sep 26; Ordrupgaard,
Vilvordevej 110, Charlottenlund;
ordrupgaard.dk
Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s watercolour depictions of family and
childhood scenes from his home
in Sundborn demonstrates his
pervasive influence on Scandinavian interior design culture. (FP)
House in Motion
opens Sep 11; Danish Architecture
Centre, Strandgade 27B, Cph K;
dac.dk
Anders Abraham’s installations
and Jes Fomsgaard’s paintings together create a figurative symbiosis between art and architecture.
Although their opinions really
were very different. (FP)
ODENSE CITY MUSEUM
opens Sep 28; Gammel Strand, Gammel
Strand 48, Cph K; glstrand.dk
Using material from his work-related
travels over the last 30 years – including
enormous panoramas of a desolate
fairground in Armenia, radioactive
landscapes in Fukushima and an open air
theatre in Sicily – the exhibition mirrors
the broad spectrum of Wenders’ work.
“Everyone turns right because that’s
where the interesting things are, but I turn
left ... to the places that are strangely quiet
or oddly calm,” he explains. (FP)
DANISH ARCHITECTURE CENTRE
PLACES, STRANGE
AND QUIET
In Greek!
opens Sep 11; Thorvaldsens Museum, Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads 2,
Cph K; thorvaldsensmuseum.dk
Studying the influence of archaic
Greek art on Danish sculpture in
the 1890s, from Niels Skovgaard
to Modernists like Astrid Noack,
Adam Fischer, Hernik Starcke
and Axel Salto. (FP)