Europe’s new photo museum sets a new standard for how to experience art and nature.
Falsterbo Photo Art Museum is a new private museum in the beach resort of Falsterbo, just 25 min from Malmo and the bridge that connects to the international Copenhagen Airport. Collectors Christina and Claes Lindquist started to collect international photo art 15 years ago. Today their collection consists of more than 450 works by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton and a younger generation like David LaChapelle, Chen Man and Julia Hetta. First show Dressed for Success - 100 Years of Fashion Photo gathers all the supermodels we love; Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss. Until October 10, 2021.
Meditating in the Great Forest
American artist Martin Puryear celebrates the honest work done by one’s hands. The carved wood and the thatcher’s intimate knowledge of his craft. But his sometimes majestic sculptures also have rooms for conflicting stories of power and oppression and soft swelling and comforting shapes. Puryear has a long history with Sweden having studied in Stockholm in the 1960’s. That’s where a seated sculpture of a king by the Swedish artist Carl Milles caught his attention. The soft triangular shape gave form to his Meditation in a Beach Forest, 1996, for the sculpture park Wanås Konst – but headless, clothed in reed and forever sunk into a different state in the midst of a clearing in the woods.
A bout du souffle with Kimsooja
Art that lets us in, opens space for our inner self, our thoughts and reflections and turn our gaze inwards. In the sculpture park Wanås Konst in Sweden, Kimsooja’s immersive installation To Breathe in the massive Hay Barn from the early 18th century makes us see by using empty space. We wander out on a mirrored surface that reflects our surroundings, dazzling and dizzying at first, listen to a soundtrack of the artist breathing and humming and find a painting made from scraps of textile stuffed into an ancient wall marked by time.
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