CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN 100 YEARS

2 February 2013 – 11 August 2013

CARL-HENNING PEDERSEN 100 YEARS
  

This year the Danish COBRA painter would have been 100 years old. To mark the occasion ARKEN is showing a major exhibition of over 200 of the artist’s paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, ceramic works and poems.

The exhibition is showing works from the whole of Carl-Henning Pedersen’s artistic career from the end of the 1930s up to his death in 2007.
 
The artworks in the exhibition have been carefully selected from among the many thousand that Carl-Henning Pedersen created over seven decades. He had a very strong urge to create and throughout his life he sought to conjure up the direct, spontaneous image. He sought the purity of the child and drew inspiration from so-called primitive folk art from all over the world. Birds, masks, suns, stars, horses, sea and sky are recurring symbolic features of his imagery, and his art is inspired by the free universe of dreams.
 
Extract from exhibition catalogue
In connection with the exhibition we have published a catalogue including a series of works and poems as well as articles that explore new art-historical themes in Carl-Henning Pedersen's oeuvre. Read an extract from the catalogue here:

Documentary about Carl-Henning Pedersen
In the exhibition you can see a documentary film, Carl-Henning Pedersen – the spontaneous painter, which ARKEN has produced in collaboration with the Danish broadcasting corporation DR. See a teaser for the film here. Please note that the movie is in danish. 
 

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The exhibition has been created in collaboration with the Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt Museum.

The exhibition is supported by:

15. juni Fonden, Carl-Henning Pedersen Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Færchfonden, Oticon Fonden, Konsul George Jorck og Hustru Emma Jorck Fond, Toyota-fonden, Oda and Hans Svenningsens Fond.

The composer Fuzzy has created a musical work for the exhibition which is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and Oticon Fonden.