Harald Giersing, Self-portrait, 1926 Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet
The Man with the Blue Face
On the expressionist quest of early modernism
15.5 2021 – 30.1 2022
Malmö
”The Man with the Blue Face” features Moderna Museet’s rich collection and presents seminal artists who contributed to the dynamic regeneration of art in the first decades of the 20th century. This exhibition includes key works by Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Helene Schjerfbeck, Vera Nilsson, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Tora Vega Holmström and many others.
The featured artists all share an experimental approach to the potential of colour, lines and composition to express different moods, emotions and existential thoughts. Naturalistic depiction did no longer feel sufficient; instead, artists wanted to explore the inner dimensions of the mind and reach for a deeper experience of reality.
Curator: Joa Ljungberg
The exhibition is in the Left Gallery
