#kunsten

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Per Kirkeby

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg

November 2025

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Georg Baselitz

Finger painting - Female Nude, 1972

Oil on canvas

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg

“In 1969, Georg Baselitz came up with the idea of turning his motifs upside down. He has been doing so ever since.

The upside-down motif can be regarded as an attempt to challenge and potentially change the way we look at pictures. He also began experimenting with his so-called 'finger paintings', painting with his fingers to achieve a rawer result. During the 1970s, he also frequently based his paintings on polaroid photos (either his own or from books), highlighted by the distinctive white margin he has left around his motif.

Fingermalerei - Weiblicher Akt was based on a photo of Baselitz's wife Elke: the artist's supreme muse. The structure of the picture challenges our gaze. In the upper part of the picture, where in a portrait the face would normally appear, he has painted Elke's naked body. He has also given her genital area such a central position that we are compelled to look at and relate to it.”

Text credit: Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg

[divine-nonchalance]

PILLAR OF LIGHT . by Slonaut . 2024 . Belgium

https://slonaut.com/

[gudamor]

[E]ventually it got fairly easy to get pictures of arbitrary prettiness, so pretty pictures do not carry the cachet and distinction that they once did, so collectors are not willing to pay that much for them. Collectors want more abstract and complicated forms of cultural cachet. They want their art to convey sophistication, and one very popular way to convey sophistication is by showing that you are in some sense in on the joke. If you bought Duchamp’s urinal, that showed that you were with it [...] An artist named Jens Haaning, who was commissioned by Kunsten, a Danish museum, to make a frankly pretty boring-sounding artwork in which he would, like, put a bunch of cash in some glass frames to make a point about society or whatever. He borrowed the cash from the museum, to put into the frames. And then he delivered the frames empty and kept the cash.

-Matt Levine, Money Stuff

[i12bent]

Lars Nørgård (65 today) is a Danish artist, trained at Skolen for Brugskunst i København (1975-78) and Academy of Art College, San Francisco (1980-81). He was part of the generation of ‘The Young and Wild’ in the 80s.

Nørgård has made public art for the Royal Danish Opera and many other institutions and is at all the major Danish museums - Kunsten, Aalborg; SMK; Trapholt; Arken; ARoS, etc.

Above: Dark Knight, 2019 - oil, acrylic and crackle paste on canvas (Gallery Martin Asbæk)

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ALVAR AALTO, North Jutland Art Museum (nowadays Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg), Aalborg,  Denmark, 1968-1972. Designed in collaboration with Elissa Aalto. Photography by Lisette Hedegaard, Montgomery. / Arkitekten

[laerkea]

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark. Alvar Aalto 1972.

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Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark