"Nature no longer exists. Wild, untamed nature, untouched by man, is a thing of the past". So writes the writer Josefine Klougart in her essay Nach der Natur.
In After Nature - A New Reading of the Glyptotek's Paintings by Writer Josefine Klougart, Josefine Klougart uses the prism of art to examine man's relationship to nature in a kind of 3-D essay in which the author's texts interact with the landscape paintings of the Glyptotek. Nature as we knew it no longer exists. Klougart explores its beauty and its disappearance from our modern reality. The sensual design of the exhibition is the work of the stage design duo Vang Stensgaard.
The exhibition and the text go hand in hand; both consist of seven "chapters". The works of art paint a picture of the period in which industrialization left an indelible mark on the climate. The exhibition includes masterpieces from the Glyptotek's collection: by French painters such as Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Henri Rousseau, and by Danish painters such as Christen Købke, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and Johan Thomas Lundbye.
As a natural extension of the exhibition experience, the Glyptotek is publishing a catalog with the complete version of Josefine Klougart's essay.
October 12, 2023 to August 18, 2024
