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Birkemose in retrospective I just had the opportunity to watch the exhibition 'Jeg er ikke
færdig endnu...' (I am
not finished yet...) with works in a retrospective of Jens Birkemose. I just finished a review of the show, that can be seen at the Museum Jorn
in Silkeborg in the period February 23-May 26. I
will not here and now give a detailed description of what the audience can
expect from the exhibition. I just want to suggest that it is not least a
vital commitment that characterizes Birkemose's
work of life - and that on several levels.
Installation
photo from the Jens Birkemose-exhibition at Museum Jorn in Silkeborg News from
the studio I have been quite improvisational in the colour
attitude in the watercolour/oil pastel that appears below. The starting point
is still a stroll around the landscape of the lakes in my neighbourhood. The
weather had been rather springy, which is rather remarkable for the time of
the season, and it has caused me to use my expressive freedom to give the
colours a slightly different expression, than how they appear at the lakes. Click on
the image and see it larger "With this fantastic exhibition at the National
Museum of Art, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba
is once lifted into the sphere, of which she belongs: as one of our greatest
sculptors. We recognize her most famous works. We see the masks and helmets
sculptures, she created in the last decades" Five stars from my good colleague at Jyllands-Posten, Tom Jørgensen,
to the special exhibition with works of Sonja Ferlov
Mancoba at the danish
national gallery. I made a review some years ago connected to a show at the Sonja Ferlov Mancoba: 'Den |
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