"Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century"
2000-09-21 until 2001-01-14
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebæk, , DK

Vision and Reality is Louisianas grand story of the 20th century. On the occasion of the new millenium, the museum takes a backward look in the exhibition extending throughout most of the museum. This exhibition is Louisianas contribution to Kulturbro 2000, a collaborative cultural project of the Oresund region.

Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructivism, Futurism and De Stijl/Bauhaus – represented by a large number of classical modern works. Each of these three movements radically rethought fundamental phenomena such as space, motion, man and form, and posed the question: what is happening to space and our spatial orientationNULL The preoccupation of avant-garde movements with the life of modern man in a new world led to artistic redefinitions – new visual idioms, new concepts of form and colour – as well as new directions in architecture and design – concrete ways of adapting to this changed world.

Hence, Vision and Reality is not simply an art exhibit. It also focuses on the dialogue between art and architecture, and includes sculpture, installations and interactive works by a number of contemporary artists.

The modern classics are presented alongside recent works – in an interplay between genres and –isms – showing how contemporary visual artists and architects have developed the great visionary potential of the first decades of the century. These juxtapositions include: El Lissitzky and Frank Stella, Iakov Chernikhov and Richard Rogers, Piet Mondrian and Dan Flavin, Nicolas Schöffer and Mona Hatoum, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Jane and Louise Wilson.

Louisiana has succeeded in securing a great many major works of classical modernism for the exhibition, including a fine selection of works by Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky. Furthermore, several new installations have been created especially for this show.

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