The Quintessential Nordic Museum Experience at Louisiana Museum.
Travelers' tip: Bridging Modern and Contemporary art, indoors and outdoors, the Louisiana Museum of Moderna Art keeps us coming back since 1958. The works in the Sculpture Park are installed so that they interact with the architecture and the surrounding nature.
Insider Editorial No. 3
The Insider Editorial No. 3. December 2020. Authenticity and Security – SmartStamp Provides Smart Tech for Art & Collectibles. Danish Design. Better Lives With Vandkunsten. Keeping the Legacy Alive – Utzon Center in Aalborg. Martin Puryear in a Beech Forest in Sweden.
Vandkunsten gives us Better Lives
Let’s live smaller-scale, better lives. Let’s share more. Invite nature in. Let’s take charge, together. Leave things alone and see the beauty. Does it sound like the credo of our times? Yes but the fact is that it is our times that finally have caught up with Danish visionary architects behind Vandkunsten Architects, who call themselves a studio for drawing and work under a name that means “water art” or “water feature” such as a fountain. In fact those are the principles that Vandkunsten has been using since the 1970’s. At Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark, a major exhibition explores Vandkunsten and the Danish interiors magazine Bo Bedre (Better Lives) and their influence on Danish architecture and interiors since the 1970’s.
From the Earth with Love of Old and New
The long tradition of working both experimentally and traditional with ceramics comes together in Denmark’s CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art a couple of hours from Copenhagen. As it grew out of its old dowager house, a contemporary extension, mostly underground to preserve the historic site, opened in 2015, by Kjaer & Richter collaborating with architect Niels Frithiof Truelsen, landscape by Wad and Henry Jensen A/S engineers. The results are an additional 1 500 m2 space for the museum and unobstructed views of the Lillebaelt sound from the sculpture park where a smaller glass and tile clad pavilion surfaces, snuck into the sloping ground, its façade partly made of artisanal tiles from Petersen Tegl.
The museum was originally founded by a group of ceramicists and is located in an area with a rich history in ceramics and brickwork. Less known than the famous Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, CLAY Museum offers a fresh take on how to experience contemporary creativity and heritage, with architecture and landscaping that merge function harmoniously with nature and a historic site.
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