The pictorial universe of Richard Mortensen in the early and later years - exhibition in two parts

27 Aug - 13 Nov 2005

Exhibition in collaboration with The Silkeborg Museum of Art.

The Silkeborg Museum of Art shows works from the mid-thirties to the mid-forties when Asger Jorn and Richard Mortensen (1910-1993) took part in their most intense artistic dialogue.

The Art Centre Silkeborg Bad provides an insight into Mortensen's work as it came to expression when he returned to Denmark after his years in Paris, i.e. the period from 1965 up to the beginning of the 90s.

Both parts of the exhibition are based on generous loans from "Statens Museum for Kunst" (the Danish National Gallery), which received a large donation of works from the Foundation "Fondet Charlotte og Richard Mortensens Kunstsamling" a few years after the artist died.

As a whole, the exhibition illustrates the relationship between Mortensen's sketches, drawings and paintings.