Part 8

We set sail, as it were, north along the coast to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a half-hour drive.  Of course, there was Kunst along the way:

This last monument is in memorial to Niels R. Finsen who, it turns out, was the first Scandinavian Nobel laureate.  The sculptor was Rudolph Tegner, whose museum we visited later in the day.  He called it Towards the Light, recognizing Finsen's theory that certain wavelengths of sunlight have healing properties.

The Louisiana has a beautiful view over the Oresund Sound, which we took advantage of at lunchtime.  The big show was Yoko Ono's Half-A-Wind Show: A Retrospective.

Yoko with Dazzler

Say what you will, the cachet attracts some unlikely Art museum attendees.

A little outside display:

Frog by Max Ernst, 1967-74

A room of Alberto Giacometti:

And then a Danish sculptor:

Seated Woman by Svend Wiig Hansen

Standing Woman by Svend Wiig Hansen, 1964

And, of course, there were rooms of Anders Jørn,

 Both Worlds by Asger Jørn, 1944

Titania II by Asger Jørn, 1940-41

I cannot adequately describe the gangly facility which often went underground, but had lots of glass and doors to the outside where we found some wonderful sculptures. It was a beautiful day and families were in evidence.

Dynamic Manor by Jean DuBuffett, 1960-82

Personnage by Joan Miro, 1970

Grande Femme debout a la draperie by Henri Laurens, 1928

Back inside we found an exhibition by Tara Donovan, who did unfathomable things with items such as buttons or sheets of poly:

And cubes of toothpicks, common pins, and glass held together “by friction and gravity.”

At this point the guard told me I couldn’t take photos (I honestly didn’t see the sign).  Other pieces included a crystalline beauty that reflected the outside light from deep inside, and a room-sized piece made from folded Mylar, a tall, wide wall made of pieces of straws, and more.  Google her images.

Then lunch in the cafe. We both had open faced (smorgasbord) on thick pieces of Danish rye topped with smoked halibut, crème fraiche, and giant blackberries which actually had flavor.

We ate outside, overlooking the Calders, other sculptures and the sea.

Almost Snow Plough (1964-76), Slender Ribs (1963) and Little Janey Waney (1964-76) by Alexander Caldwell

Reclining Figure No 5 (Seagram) by Henry Moore, 1963-64

Stacked Bowls by Jean Arp, 1947

 Marie attached a wish to Yoko’s Wishing Tree.

One of the long underground arms of the museum was closed with one show coming down and another going up. It happens. The museum, by the way, opened in 1958.  But there was much more to see.

Abstract Figure by Oskar Schlemmer, 1921-23

In the Free Blue by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929

 untitled by Mark Rothko, 1968

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