COPENHAGEN.- This autumn and winter the
Glyptotek offers the public a unique opportunity to be drawn into the world of the French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916).
“Odilon Redon. Into the Dream” is the first major presentation of Redon's work in Denmark.
The basis of the exhibition is spectacular loans from both public and private collections in Europe and the USA, as well as from The Kröller-Müller Museum in Holland, who have devised the exhibition in collaboration with the Glyptotek. In all, one can experience more than 150 works by the French symbolist, graphic artist and painter.
Representing a large part of Redon’s wide-ranging sources of inspiration the exhibition also includes works from the Glyptotek’s own collections which span from French painting, including selected works by Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Vincent van Gogh, Ancient Egypt and Greece.
The works in the exhibition have been set in perspective with soundposts which relate to Redon’s great sources of inspiration, including the worlds of music and literature.
Redon’s composite universe of inspiration also are reflected and interpreted throughout the period of the exhibition, featuring a programme of events which will range from live music, through literary arrangements, to readings and much more. Further information on events related to the exhibition will be available on a later date.
Into the Dream
Odilon Redon’s universe is filled with narratives, and the Glyptotek invites visitors on a journey of discovery on all three floors of the museum’s Henning Larsen Building. With the exhibition title, “Odilon Redon. Into the Dream” the visitor is conducted into the dream – not only Redon’s dream but also one’s own. In a lavish, inquisitive universe the exhibition reaches out to visitors through a series of universal themes which are as immediate to us today as they were for the artist.
With themes such as dream, darkness, mythology, literature, music, spirit and science the Glyptotek presents Redon as a highly complex and innovative, “dreamy” artist who embraces progress and science, yet also things that cannot be explained: the inner world, darkness and the dream.
