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The Danish National Gallery Goes Retro!
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From 18 March 2005 to autumn 2006 the Statens Museum for Kunst (Danish National Gallery) will present their most outstanding works of art in a new, challenging way.
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The extensive im-provements of the fire safety of the old museum building will influence the exhibitions in 2005 and as a result of this, a plentiful selection of 700 years of art – ranging from Mantegna, Cranach, Lippi, Lorenzetti and Rubens via Abildgaard, Eckersberg, Hammers-høi, Krøyer and Willumsen to Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Mortensen, Nolde, Jorn, Weie and contemporary artists like Kirkeby, Kvium, Lemmerz and many others - will be hung in the new white building in a concentrated form.
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The new presentation will in some ways be like the compact floor-to-ceiling hanging of the past, as experienced by the first guests to the museum when it opened in 1896. The works are hung from floor to ceiling and arranged chronologically. However, the surroundings will be changed, and the old paintings will, no doubt, present themselves quite differently in the white, spacious rooms of the new building, just as the juxtaposition of the works will show new analogies. In connection with the extension of the gallery in 1997-98 it became clear that extensive improvements of the fire safety were needed in the old house. Major parts of the roof and the underlying construction must be renovated, and partition walls of wood must be torn down and rebuilt in new material. At the same time, the lighting will be improved in the new, fireproof exhibition rooms in order to bring it up to date and secure high standards. As from 11 January 2005 access to the museum will be from the Østre Anlæg park. Read more: www.smk.dk |
Wednesday, September 12 2007
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