Swords and Dragons.

16 Oct - 19 Dec 1999

Stone art from Danish Middle Ages photographed by Poul Pedersen and in rubbings by Ludvig Stubbe Teglbjerg.

With focus on a number of themes and individual features which like the runes from the Jelling Stone go back to the Viking Age, you will be able to experience photographer Poul Pedersen's numerous photographs of Medieval motives, e.g. bows, ashlars, portal decorations, and baptismal fonts from Danish Roman Middle Age churches, etc. He worked during the first part of the sixties on these Middle Age studies together with Asger Jorn who then planned a 30 volume publication on Scandinavian Art fra Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A selection of Roman stones and a number of "castings" are part of the exhibition and in this way the Roman granite art in the exhibition will be visible to the public in various media.

Together with Poul Pedersen's photographs contemporary visual artists are included, e.g. Ludvig Stubbe Tegjbjerg. He will be represented in a larger section with rubbings, which will reproduce the artistic qualities of the Roman granite works in natural size and shape.