Stockholm: Moderna Museet & Ed Ruscha

by Anna Adriani | Jun 16, 2010 in Exhibitions | Leave A Comment

A Stoccolma in occasione del World Public Relations Forum, ho visitato lo splendido Moderna Museet, che sorge nel verde di Skeppsholmen, una delle 14 isole che compongono la città. Il museo ospita una ricca collezione d’arte che parte dall’inizio del secolo scorso per arrivare ai nostri giorni.

Ospita fino al prossimo 5 settembre una mostra che certamente costituisce un motivo in più per venire nella capitale svedese: “Ed Ruscha: fifty years of Painting” (mostra nella sua ultima tappa dopo Londra e Monaco). E’ una emozionante retrospettiva dell’artista americano (nato nel 1937) che ha, nel corso della sua carriera, attraversato generi e fasi diverse, tutte all’insegna della provocazione e dell’ironia. Dal pop al surrealismo, dal concettualismo al post-modernismo. Da non perdere!

E in una delle sale che il Moderna Muset dedicata invece alla collezione permanente ho avuto anche – da illyana – la piacevole sorpresa di trovare il poetico video di William Kentridge “Journey to the moon“, dove l’artista sudafricano gioca con una tazzina illy!

I was in Stockholm on the occasion of the World Public Relations Forum and I took the chance to visit the Moderna Museet, located in the very green Skeppsholmen, one of the 14 islands that make up the city. This museum has an excellent collection of modern and contemporary art.

Right now there’s an exhibit (until Sept. 5 2010) that provides us with an extra reason to visit the Swedish capital. “Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting” is a traveling exhibit on its last stop after London and Munich. The retrospective of the American artist (borh 1937) whose career evolved over half a century of production but who always sought provocation and irony. From pop to surrealism, from conceptual to post-modern art. Don’t miss this show!

The exhibition is largely hung in chronological order and the paintings are grouped thematically. Between these themes, new connections arise; many mutual bonds have been made in the course of half a century of painting. Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre shows a strong consistency; his method of rummaging through our culture for material makes this exhibition an incisive and ever-morphing portrayal of Los Angeles, and thus, in a broader sense, of our time.

In the museum’s permanent collection I had the pleasure of coming across William Kentridge’s 2004 video “Journey to the Moon” in which the south-african artist plays with an illy cup.

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