Sven-Harrys konstmuseum is recreating a legendary and groundbreaking exhibition
The exhibition’s second part is subtitled The Dramatics of Color and the Dynamics of the City, a phrase taken from GAN’s own preface to the catalog for the 1918 Sailor Compositions show. This part presents GAN's powerful urban scenes and the environments where he felt most at home. The museum is showing about fifteen paintings of big city motifs, especially views of Stockholm in which GAN captures the energy that pervaded the radically changing urban scene during the rise of modernism. GAN’s burgeoning talent developed explosively during this period with inspiration from the modernity and dynamism of his adoptive hometown.
“Of course it’s incredibly fun to get to recreate something of the dynamic forcefield that was generated by GAN’s extraordinary work of 1916–19, when he had moved from Lund and begun developing his ground-breaking art in Stockholm,” says the exhibition’s curator, Pedro Westerdahl. “The fact that the exhibition is being presented here at Sven-Harrys konstmuseum makes me especially happy, because visitors are going to see GAN’s art in the remarkable gallery created by the master builder Sven-Harry Karlsson, who also came to occupy a significant place in Stockholm’s art scene after moving here from GAN’s old hometown of Lund, where they both grew up.”
In conjunction with the exhibition, a series of interesting tours and conversations with artists, authors, and art critics is being arranged to explore Gösta Adrian-Nilsson’s life and work. Information on the program of events will become available later.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a luxuriously produced exhibition catalog about GAN’s life and work that will include images of all the works in the show.
